{"id":1738503,"date":"2022-11-14T16:33:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T21:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1738503"},"modified":"2022-11-14T16:33:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T21:33:32","slug":"gop-flips-house-seat-in-deep-blue-oregon-bringing-party-closer-to-house-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-flips-house-seat-in-deep-blue-oregon-bringing-party-closer-to-house-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Flips House Seat in Deep-Blue Oregon, Bringing Party Closer to House Majority"},"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-flips-house-seat-in-deep-blue-oregon-bringing-party-closer-to-house-majority%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=1738503&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\">Lori Chavez-DeRemer triumphed over radical leftist Jamie McLeod-Skinner<\/p>\n<p>    Lori Chavez-DeRemer (Via YouTube)   <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 November 14, 2022 4:28 pm  <\/p>\n<p>Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer flipped a long-held Democratic seat in Oregon, putting the GOP one step closer to a majority in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Chavez-DeRemer beat Democrat Jamie McLeod-Skinner in Oregon\u2019s Fifth Congressional District by 2 points, the Associated Press reported Sunday. Chavez-DeRemer, a former mayor of Happy Valley, Ore., will be the first Republican woman to represent Oregon in the House. McLeod-Skinner, a radical leftist, had expressed support for the Green New Deal and Medicare for All.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As mayor of Happy Valley, I was proud of my bipartisan track record, and it was critical to approach every issue through a non-partisan lens,&#8221; Chavez-DeRemer said in a statement. &#8220;That is exactly what I promise to do as your next Congresswoman. This is a historic victory for Oregon, but the work starts now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chavez-DeRemer\u2019s victory was a bright spot in a disappointing election for Republicans, who had hoped to secure major gains in the House. With 11 races left to call, a Republican House majority may come down to just a few seats. Republicans notched big wins in New York, where the party\u2019s tough-on-crime messaging helped <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/making-history-dccc-chairman-maloney-becomes-first-dem-campaign-chief-to-fall-in-four-decades\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">topple<\/a> four Democrats, including Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman Sean Patrick Maloney.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican ran as a moderate and frequently criticized her Democratic opponent as a radical who would permit reckless government spending and high levels of crime. She <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LChavezDeRemer\/status\/1580277542577180672\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">referred<\/a> to McLeod-Skinner, who was a city council member for eight years in Santa Clara, Calif., as &#8220;an out of touch San Francisco politician pretending to be an Oregonian.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McLeod-Skinner ousted seven-term representative Kurt Schrader (D.) during the May primary. She <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/these-pacific-northwest-democrats-say-theyre-moderates-their-records-show-otherwise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dodged<\/a> the progressive label during the general election, even after receiving endorsements from the Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC and Progressive Democrats of America.<\/p>\n<p>McLeod-Skinner conceded the race on Sunday. She lost her first run for Congress in 2018 against Republican Greg Walden in Oregon\u2019s second district.<\/p>\n<p>Schrader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/kurt-schrader-casts-doubt-on-house-democrat_n_62a76e82e4b06594c1cc720a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">predicted<\/a> in June that McLeod-Skinner\u2019s decision to run to his left\u2014along with a change in the district\u2019s boundaries\u2014would hand Chavez-DeRemer the victory. The newly drawn district wraps around liberal enclaves in Portland, Salem, and Bend while retaining mostly conservative rural counties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think people are exhausted with the extreme, far-right Trumpites,&#8221; Schrader told a Portland-based ABC affiliate. &#8220;I think they\u2019re<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer flipped a long-held Democratic seat in Oregon, putting the GOP one step closer to a majority in the House of Representatives.<br \/>\nThe post GOP Flips House Seat in Deep-Blue Oregon, Bringing Party Closer to House Majority appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":1738506,"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-1738503","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\/1738503","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=1738503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1738506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}