“After two decades of public service to Seattle – the last 12 as your City Attorney – it’s time to acknowledge that my opponents will be advancing to the general election,” he said in a statement Friday.
After ending election night in second place, Holmes’ hope for survival faded Thursday and Friday, as the ballots that were counted later shifted away from him and toward a progressive challenger, Nicole Thomas-Kennedy. This historically leftward trend of late ballots catapulted Thomas-Kennedy from third to first place. Ann Davison, who last year ran for lieutenant governor as a Republican, remains comfortably in second.
With 31% of the vote, Holmes trails Davison’s 33% and Thomas-Kennedy’s 35.5%. With few
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