{"id":1719372,"date":"2022-11-01T06:02:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T10:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1719372"},"modified":"2022-11-01T09:19:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T13:19:04","slug":"gop-challenger-tightens-race-with-democrat-incumbent-of-30-years-in-washington-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-challenger-tightens-race-with-democrat-incumbent-of-30-years-in-washington-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Challenger Tightens Race With Democrat Incumbent of 30-Years in Washington Senate Race"},"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%2Fgop-challenger-tightens-race-with-democrat-incumbent-of-30-years-in-washington-senate-race%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=1719372&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/original_Untitled_design_-_2022-10-30T202917.305.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>                Over the weekend, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/senate\/wa\/washington_senate_smiley_vs_murray-7400.html#!\">Real Clear Politics<\/a> (RCP) switched Washington state\u2019s Senate race from \u201cLeans D\u201d to \u201cToss Up,\u201d which may determine control of the chamber.<\/p>\n<p>The latest poll, which contributed to the RCP average, comes from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetrafalgargroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WA-General-Poll-Report-1029.pdf\">Trafalgar Group<\/a> and shows 30-year Washington\u2019s Democrat incumbent Senator <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/washington-democrat-senators-claim-that-republicans-plan-to-end-social-security-and-medicare-debunked-by-wapo\">Patty Murray<\/a> with 49.4 percent to Republican challenger <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/seahawks-threaten-gop-senate-candidate-with-lawsuit-after-vet-husband-wears-jersey-in-ad-they-once-honored-his-service\">Tiffany Smiley\u2019s<\/a> 48.2 percent, a statistical tie with a margin of error of 2.9 percent, with 2.4 percent of voters remaining undecided.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetrafalgargroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/WA-General-Poll-Report-1029.pdf\">poll<\/a> was the first taken after Smiley and Murray met in a televised town hall debate, and\u00a0surveyed 1,207 likely Washington voters, with 44.2 percent identifying as Democrats and 33.4 percent identifying as Republicans.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>The surge appears to be coming from independent voters, who accounted for 22.4 percent of the respondents. The undecided voters do not look like a good parachute for Murray with 80 percent of thinking the country is on the \u201cwrong track,\u201d according to another poll.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last Monday, the Moore Information Group (MIG)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/13619SmIBjGJh1z4EgsJybxbf3MSvb0md\/view\">poll<\/a>\u00a0revealed that Smiley was tied with Murray at 46 percent, with Smiley up two percentage points since MIG\u2019s September poll, with Murray losing two points since their last poll. Only 18 percent of undecided voters have a favorable view of Murray.<\/p>\n<p>Smiley performed well in <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/democrat-patty-murray-presses-for-gun-control-trusting-cdc-experts-in-only-washington-senate-debate-before-midterms\">last week\u2019s debate<\/a>, which is a likely contributing factor to her rise in the polls. Smiley slammed the 71-year-old incumbent for championing President Joe Biden\u2019s \u201cInflation Reduction Act\u201d and voting in lockstep with the Democrat agenda.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Smiley said during the debate, \u201cSen. Murray stood with Joe Biden with the \u2018Inflation Reduction\u2019 Act and said this is going to help us. Don\u2019t be deceived by the name; it does nothing to combat inflation, in fact, it raises taxes on all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>The pair met for their final faceoff on Sunday night. Once again Smiley called out Murray\u2019s support of Biden\u2019s failing agenda saying, \u201cI\u2019ll never forget seeing a mom at the Kent Safeway\u2026trying to make ends meet to feed [her children]. That woman doesn\u2019t need Senator Murray\u2019s electric vehicle voucher. That woman needs gas prices to be lower.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smiley added, \u201cThe Inflation Reduction Act does nothing to reduce inflation. In fact, it raises taxes on all of us and Senator Murray was the deciding vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Six other US Senate races are now considered statistical ties in addition to Washington, \u00a0including Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nevada, New Hampshire, and Wisconsin.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, Real Clear Politics (RCP) switched Washington state\u2019s Senate race from \u201cLeans D\u201d to \u201cToss Up,\u201d which may determine control of the chamber.The latest poll, which contributed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1719375,"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":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1719372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"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\/1719372","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1719372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1719375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}