Klippert’s bid comes after right-leaning voters split among several conservative candidates in the August primary, leaving the GOP off the ballot for a statewide race they’ve won for decades.
Voters instead chose Hobbs, a moderate Democrat and former Snohomish County lawmaker, along with Anderson, an experienced local elections official who is running as a nonpartisan, to appear on the Nov. 8 ballot.
A conservative lawmaker and Benton County sheriff’s deputy, Klippert has been focusing on unfounded election-fraud conspiracies after the losses of President Donald Trump and GOP candidate for governor Loren Culp in 2020 at the ballot box.
First elected to the state House in 2008, Klippert was a longtime
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