{"id":1711068,"date":"2022-10-26T05:18:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T09:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1711068"},"modified":"2022-10-26T05:18:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T09:18:37","slug":"oregon-voters-say-theyve-lost-patience-with-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oregon-voters-say-theyve-lost-patience-with-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Voters Say They\u2019ve Lost Patience With Democrats"},"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\">16<\/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%2Foregon-voters-say-theyve-lost-patience-with-democrats%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=1711068&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 class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/\">Elections<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">&#8216;When I drive through Portland, I\u2019m scared&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>    Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tina Kotek speaks to her constituents during a rally on October 22, 2022 in Portland, Oregon.   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/josh-christenson\/\" title=\"Posts by Josh Christenson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Josh Christenson<\/a> \u2022 October 26, 2022 5:00 am  <\/p>\n<p>SALEM, Ore.\u2014After nearly four decades of Democratic control, voters in Oregon are ready for a change of leadership.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t like the Democratic approach to anything that\u2019s happening,&#8221; said Terri, who lives with her husband outside of Salem and dropped her party affiliation two years ago. &#8220;I used to be a Democrat for 40 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Like many voters who spoke with the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>, Terri is fed up with President Joe Biden and Oregon governor Kate Brown (D.). She said both have attempted to woo progressives with policies that undermine public safety and contribute to record inflation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want law and order. I want people who have committed crimes to be prosecuted,&#8221; she said before gesturing to her liberal friend seated next to her. &#8220;We want help for those who need it\u2014not help for everybody, like this administration is doing, just handing out money willy-nilly.&#8221; Her friend agreed.<\/p>\n<p>That dissatisfaction is threatening Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tina Kotek\u2019s chances in Oregon, where voters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filesforprogress.org\/datasets\/2022\/10\/dfp_oregon_october18_2022_tabs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rank<\/a> crime and the economy as top concerns. Even after Biden visited the state to stump for Kotek, the Democrat trails her Republican opponent Christine Drazan in recent polls. Statewide surveys also show a majority of Oregonians have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filesforprogress.org\/datasets\/2022\/10\/dfp_oregon_october18_2022_tabs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an unfavorable view<\/a> of both Biden and Kotek.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kotek is Brown,&#8221; Terri said, a remark similar to others the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/they-are-agents-of-chaos-youngkin-urges-oregon-voters-to-oust-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heard while visiting the state<\/a>. Kotek has sought to distance herself from the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/kate-brown-ranks-dead-last-among-governors-for-second-consecutive-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">least popular governor<\/a> in America. She criticized Brown in interviews this year but accepted Brown\u2019s endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>Residents\u2019 talk often centers on Portland, where Kotek lives and which has long been a hotbed of far-left activism in Oregon. Anti-police protests inspired by the killing of George Floyd gripped the city for over 100 days in 2020, with rioters damaging businesses and clashing violently against federal and local law enforcement. Data for Progress, a left-wing think tank, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filesforprogress.org\/datasets\/2022\/10\/dfp_oregon_october18_2022_tabs.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> two years later that 62 percent of voters want to see more police in their communities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I drive through Portland, I\u2019m scared. I didn\u2019t used to be scared, but I\u2019m scared,&#8221; Chris, who volunteers for a nonprofit that helps the homeless, told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SALEM, Ore.\u2014After nearly four decades of Democratic control, voters in Oregon are ready for a change of leadership.<br \/>\nThe post Oregon Voters Say They\u2019ve Lost Patience With Democrats appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":1711071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711068","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\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1711071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}