{"id":1596533,"date":"2022-08-09T11:03:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T15:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1596533"},"modified":"2022-08-09T11:03:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T15:03:21","slug":"pro-trump-candidate-pulls-ahead-projected-to-beat-incumbent-who-voted-to-impeach-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-trump-candidate-pulls-ahead-projected-to-beat-incumbent-who-voted-to-impeach-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Trump Candidate Pulls Ahead, Projected to Beat Incumbent Who Voted to Impeach Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpro-trump-candidate-pulls-ahead-projected-to-beat-incumbent-who-voted-to-impeach-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1596533&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Republican attempting to unseat a congresswoman who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump pulled ahead of the incumbent on Aug. 8, and is now projected to earn a spot in the general election.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Kent, the GOP candidate, trailed Rep.\u00a0Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.), who voted to impeach Trump, by thousands of votes soon after the Aug. 2 election.<\/p>\n<p>But as more ballots have been counted, Kent began to gain on Beutler, and on Monday went from 303 votes down to 960 votes up.<\/p>\n<p>After the latest batch of votes were tallied in Cowlitz, Clark, and Thurston counties, Cook Political Report, which forecasts and projects races, projected Kent will ultimately trump the incumbent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in the lead &#038; feeling strong,\u201d Kent said in a statement on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Beutler\u2019s campaign did not respond to a request for comment on the updated results.<\/p>\n<p>Kent urged people to check to make sure their ballot has not been \u201crejected\u201d or \u201creturned.\u201d If it has, people can try to fix the issue and resubmit their ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Kent himself had his ballot rejected, forcing him to go and verify his signature, he told <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2022\/08\/08\/breaking-wa-3-candidate-joe-kent-has-his-own-ballot-rejected-after-wildly-delayed-election-count\/\">the National Pulse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> More Counting <\/p>\n<p>Cowlitz County has approximately 480 ballots left to count, Thurston County has about 7,000, and Clark County has about 10,000, according to the county election websites.<\/p>\n<p>Officials in Thurston and Clark counties expect to give the next updates on the tallies during the afternoon of Aug. 9.<\/p>\n<p>Cowlitz County says its next update will take place on Aug. 10.<\/p>\n<p>Clark County Auditor Greg Kimsey told KOIN-TV that the work includes verifying signatures on ballots that were sent by mail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most important security feature in vote-by-mail is to verify the signatures on those affidavit envelopes,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd everyone of those ballot envelopes that are returned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Republican attempting to unseat a congresswoman who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump pulled ahead of the incumbent on Aug. 8, and is now projected to earn a spot in the general election. Joe Kent, the GOP candidate, trailed Rep.\u00a0Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.), who voted to impeach Trump, by thousands of votes soon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1596533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}