“Huge undecided number,” said Elway, adding: “Hobbs really hasn’t consolidated the Democratic vote, and … Anderson seems to be picking up the non-Democrat vote.”
The special election comes after thrice-elected GOP Secretary of State Kim Wyman took an election-security job last year in the Biden administration. Inslee appointed Hobbs, a longtime Snohomish County state lawmaker, to the vacancy. Hobbs is the first person of color to lead the office.
Hobbs didn’t come with election experience prior to his appointment, unlike Wyman and her predecessor, Sam Reed. A lieutenant colonel in the Washington National Guard, Hobbs has played up his extensive legislative and military experience as an asset for an office
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