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Seattle’s CBS affiliate reports:
Jaime Herrera Beutler, who represented Washington’s 3rd District since 2011, conceded her re-election race moments after the latest vote totals were released from the Washington Secretary of State late Tuesday afternoon.
The battle between Herrera Beutler and Kent is a now-familiar tale: She voted to impeach Donald Trump following the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, and he was endorsed by Trump in the primary.
Kent, a Trump-backed former Green Beret who has pushed election conspiracy theories and has ties to right-wing groups, will now face Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez in the November 2022 election.
The New York Times reports:
The reaction this week to the F.B.I.’s court-approved search of Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s residence in Palm Beach, Fla., went far beyond the usual ire and indignation. “This. Means. War,” The Gateway Pundit, a pro-Trump outlet, wrote in an online post. The post was quickly amplified by Steve Bannon.
Hours later, on the podcast “Bannon’s War Room,” Mr. Bannon himself asked Joe Kent, a Trump-endorsed House candidate in Washington State, for his assessment of the search. “This just shows everyone what many of us have been saying for a very long time,” Mr. Kent declared. “We’re at war.”
The Associated Press reports:
A congressional candidate whose compelling personal story of military valor and unfathomable loss helped him win former President Donald Trump’s support has connections to right-wing extremists, including a campaign consultant who was a member of the Proud Boys.
Republican Joe Kent has also courted prominent white nationalists and posed recently for a photograph with a media personality who has previously described Adolf Hitler as a “complicated historical figure” who “many people misunderstand.”
Kent is also a close political ally of Joey Gibson, the founder of the Christian nationalist group Patriot Prayer. Kent has also sought support from figures associated with the white nationalist “Groyper Army” movement led by Nick Fuentes.
Joe Kent has won the WA-03 primary pic.twitter.com/pQexzY0sg0
— Jack Posobiec ? (@JackPosobiec) August 9, 2022
Our top priority in 2023 is dismantling the administrative state and bringing the national security state to heel. To accomplish this we have to win in November; to do that we must unify. pic.twitter.com/RXvBv5Htj0
— Joe Kent for WA-3 (@joekent16jan19) August 9, 2022
We must bring the national security state to heel or we won’t have a country anymore.
That has to be our top priority in 2023.
We start with the FBI & DOJ.
— Joe Kent for WA-3 (@joekent16jan19) August 9, 2022