{"id":1735725,"date":"2022-11-11T23:47:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T04:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1735725"},"modified":"2022-11-11T23:47:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T04:47:56","slug":"breaking-democrat-tina-kotek-beats-republican-christine-drazan-in-oregon-governors-race-projection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-democrat-tina-kotek-beats-republican-christine-drazan-in-oregon-governors-race-projection\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Democrat Tina Kotek Beats Republican Christine Drazan In Oregon Governor\u2019s Race: Projection"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fbreaking-democrat-tina-kotek-beats-republican-christine-drazan-in-oregon-governors-race-projection%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=1735725&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>Democrat Tina Kotek\u00a0will be the next governor of Oregon, defeating Republican Christine Drazan and Independent candidate Betsy Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>The winner was <a href=\"https:\/\/results.decisiondeskhq.com\/national\/2022-governor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">projected<\/a> by Decision Desk,\u00a0with Kotek holding 47.14%\u00a0of the vote, Drazan holding 43.47% of the vote, and Johnson holding 8.65%\u00a0of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>The trio was vying to replace Democratic Governor Kate Brown, a heavily unpopular governor who could not run again due to term limits. Drazan previously served as the minority leader for the Oregon House of Representatives and Johnson was a longtime Democratic legislator with a distaste for the state\u2019s party establishment.<\/p>\n<p>Drazan campaigned on homelessness, crime, and low performance in schools after the COVID pandemic lockdowns. Notably, Kotek embraced the need for more police officers, prompting criticism from Drazan, who noted that she did not support law enforcement during the Portland riots in the summer of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview in September, Drazan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/qa-with-gop-oregon-gubernatorial-candidate-christine-drazan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> The Daily Wire that she planned to declare a state of emergency on homelessness, putting her office in the \u201cdriver\u2019s seat.\u201d She also promised to not mandate COVID lockdowns, citing the impact they had on children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a mom of three, I saw firsthand the impacts of the shutdowns on my kids and their friends and our neighbors. It was unacceptable to put our kids last for the impacts of COVID,\u201d she said. \u201cThose shutdowns hurt their academic progress and it certainly impacted their social and emotional wellbeing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The race was largely expected to go to the Democrat initially, but Drazan started making headlines in recent months after leading in several polls.<\/p>\n<p>In August, The Center for Politics at the University of Virginia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/oregon-governor-race-moves-to-toss-up-pointing-to-possible-historic-gop-win\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moved<\/a> its Crystal Ball rating for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/oregon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oregon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/2022-midterms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gubernatorial<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/is-a-red-wave-coming-for-deep-blue-oregon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">race<\/a> from \u201cLeans Democratic\u201d to \u201cToss-Up\u201d in a significant adjustment. In September, a DHM Research poll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/poll-shows-republican-candidate-christine-drazan-ahead-in-race-for-oregon-governor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discovered<\/a> that around 32% of likely voters in the state would vote for Drazan if deciding that day. Only 31% said they would support Kotek, while 18% said they would support Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>The three-candidate race, combined with voter dissatisfaction with current policies, crime, and homelessness in the state created what some viewed as an opportunity to elect the first Republican governor since the 1970s \u2014 though it didn\u2019t come to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>The race also drew parallels to the Virginia 2021 gubernatorial election, which saw Republican Glenn Youngkin win a governor\u2019s seat that Republicans last won in the red wave of 2010. Youngkin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/glenn-youngkin-hits-the-trail-for-oregon-gop-gubernatorial-candidate-christine-drazan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">campaigned<\/a> for Drazan; President Joe Biden for Kotek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Tina Kotek\u00a0will be the next governor of Oregon, defeating Republican Christine Drazan and Independent candidate Betsy Johnson. The winner was projected by Decision Desk,\u00a0with Kotek holding 47.14%\u00a0of the vote, Drazan holding 43.47% of the vote, and Johnson holding 8.65%\u00a0of the vote. The trio was vying to replace Democratic Governor Kate Brown, a heavily unpopular &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":1735728,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1735725","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\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1735728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}