There’s a reason why we wait to count the votes, but Jaime Herrera Beutler has apparently seen enough.
The six-term Republican congresswoman conceded Tuesday as Donald Trump–backed candidate Joe Kent continued his late surge past Herrera Beutler in the 2022 primary election for Washington’s Third Congressional District. The AP hasn’t called the race yet, as Kent leads by less than 1,000 votes with an estimated 10,000 left to count, but the incumbent from Southwest Washington acknowledged the inevitable in a statement shortly after the most recent tally. “My campaign came up short this time,” she wrote, before eventually alluding to why: “I’m proud that I always told the truth,
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