{"id":973771,"date":"2021-11-05T19:28:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T23:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=973771"},"modified":"2021-11-05T19:28:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T23:28:56","slug":"poll-joe-kent-takes-lead-in-washington-state-congressional-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-joe-kent-takes-lead-in-washington-state-congressional-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Joe Kent Takes Lead in Washington State Congressional 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\">20<\/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%2Fpoll-joe-kent-takes-lead-in-washington-state-congressional-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=973771&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 class=\"subheading\">Trump-endorsed Green Beret veteran Joe Kent takes the lead in the race for Washington\u2019s Third Congressional District while&nbsp;Republican incumbent Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, who supported Trump\u2019s impeachment, sits at third, according to a Trafalgar group poll.<\/p>\n<p>The poll asked, \u201cIf the election for Congress were held tomorrow,\u201d who would they vote for in the jungle primary. This means that only the top two candidates with the highest percentage advance to the general election. The survey currently shows Kent with a&nbsp;roughly six-point lead ahead of&nbsp;Democrat Brent Hennrich, followed by the incumbent impeachment Republican.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The poll shows Kent is in the lead with 30.6 percent and Hennrich in second place with 24.7 percent.&nbsp;Herrera Beutler is in third with 23.4 percent, meaning that she would not advance past the primary, along with Heidi St. John, another Republican, with 9.8 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Six percent said they would vote for an \u201cother Democrat,\u201d 1.8 percent were \u201cundecided,\u201d and 3.8 percent said they \u201cwouldn\u2019t vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15656810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"41\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/trump-impeachment-herrera-beutler-june-2020-file-photo-rep-jaime-herrera-beutler-wash-speaks-labor-e1636137951748.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15656810 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/trump-impeachment-herrera-beutler-june-2020-file-photo-rep-jaime-herrera-beutler-wash-speaks-labor-e1636137951748.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this June 4, 2020, photo, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) speaks during a Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee hearing. (Al Drago\/Pool via AP, File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The poll also showed that Kent is favored by 39.7 percent, with 22.4 percent saying \u201cVery Favorable,\u201d only 23.1 found Kent \u201cUnforarable.\u201d However, the&nbsp;impeachment Republican was favored slightly less with 33.1 percent, but over half of the respondents (58.9 percent) found&nbsp;Herrera Beutler to be&nbsp;\u201cUnfavorable.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The&nbsp;Trafalgar group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrafalgargroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/WA03-22Primary-Nov-Poll-Report.pdf\">poll<\/a> was conducted between October 30 and November 1, asking 682 likely 2022 top-two primary voters. The poll has a margin of error of \u00b13.68 percent and a 95 percent confidence level.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the poll numbers, Byron Sanford, a representative for Kent, exclusively told Breitbart News that \u201cWe aren\u2019t taking anything for granted, but it\u2019s quite encouraging that we\u2019re in first place against RINO impeachment voter&nbsp;Jaime Herrera Beutler, who\u2019s in third place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a top-two primary\u2026 her favorability is down in the low thirties, and we\u2019re beating her by nearly eight percentage points. It just goes to show that our grassroots campaign is gathering steam,\u201d&nbsp;Sanford added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.6581196581197\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trafalgar_group?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@trafalgar_group<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/poll?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#poll<\/a> of likely \u201822 Top-Two Primary Election WA Congressional District 3 voters (10\/31-11\/01) shows <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JaimeForUSRep?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JaimeForUSRep<\/a>, a Republican House member who voted to impeach <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DonaldTrump?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DonaldTrump<\/a>, now trailing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joekent16jan19?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@joekent16jan19<\/a> See Report: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9SC7jMVy1J\">https:\/\/t.co\/9SC7jMVy1J<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4sltRb2aFl\">pic.twitter.com\/4sltRb2aFl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Trafalgar Group (@trafalgar_group) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trafalgar_group\/status\/1456313967169703941?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/10\/america-first-candidate-special-forces-veteran-joe-kent-taking-permanent-ruling-class\/\">exclusive interview<\/a>&nbsp;Kent had with Breitbart News earlier this year, he decided to run against the incumbent to try and unseat her after she voted for the impeachment of former President Donald Trump after the January 6 incident.&nbsp;\u201cThe Republican congresswoman who I voted for stabbed us in the back and voted for the impeachment of President Trump,\u201d he said in the interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019d always kind of been a very weak Republican, very typical of the establishment. She voted against the construction of the border wall. She voted to keep our troops in Syria, our troops in Afghanistan,\u201d he added. \u201cShe voted for Obamacare, but this was the straw that broke the camel\u2019s back. So I saw basically our entire country kind of being driven off the cliff by the Democrats, and I wanted to do something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><span><i>Twitter<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump-endorsed Green Beret veteran Joe Kent takes the lead in the race for Washington\u2019s Third Congressional District while\u00a0Republican incumbent Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, who supported Trump\u2019s impeachment, sits at third, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"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-973771","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\/973771","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973771\/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=973771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}