Rep. Dan Newhouse, one of the two remaining Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump after his supporters rioted at the Capitol in 2021, finished second to a Trump-backed challenger in Tuesday’s primary in Washington.
Newhouse will still be on the November ballot, however, because Washington’s primaries nominate the top two finishers in a primary regardless of party. Defeating another Republican with Trump at the top of the ticket, however, will be a much more difficult task for Newhouse than he faced in 2022.
Voters in Washington races also chose nominees for open seats in the Republican-leaning 5th District and the Democratic-leaning 6th District and set a rematch in a battleground 3rd District race, where Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is one of five Democrats representing a district that backed Trump over Joe Biden in 2020.
