Voters will choose between Kent, a Trump-endorsed America First special forces veteran and intelligence operative, and Gluesenkamp Perez, a rural Skamania County Democrat who owns an auto shop in Portland.
Unlike many races in Washington state, the apparition of former Presidential Donald Trump has hung directly over this contest.
The pair of young candidates now face off to replace Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, a Republican from Battle Ground. Voters punished Herrera Beutler in the August top-two primary after she voted to impeach the president for his connection to Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Washington’s 3rd District includes all of Clark, Wahkiakum, Pacific, Skamania, Cowlitz and Lewis counties and
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