In her quest to oust longtime incumbent Murray, Republican challenger Tiffany Smiley ran up big margins in Yakima County, taking 64% of the vote. The veterans’ advocate hailed by Republicans as a star candidate even got 6% more of the votes cast than the Yakima County total for the Republican Party’s 2018 midterm challenger against U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell.
But there’s a number missing from this equation: What does that 6% represent in the vote count? In the end, wins come from votes.
And Smiley’s lopsided win in Central Washington actually brought fewer votes than challenger Susan Hutchison earned there in 2018. Ditto the statewide result, where Smiley’s 1.25 million
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