Twice-defeated Republican gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi will face Democratic Sen. Patty Murray in a November contest that could prove critical to GOP chances of winning a Senate majority.
Murray finished first in Washington state’s unique top-two primary, capturing 46 percent of the vote with 60 percent of precincts reporting. Rossi came in second with 34 percent, enough to advance to the general election as the GOP nominee.
Republicans sought to frame the results as a sign of Murray’s weakness in November, when the GOP will need to pick off several Democratic incumbents from blue states like Washington if the party expects to win control of the Senate.
“As the final results are tallied, the fact that an 18-year incumbent from a blue state who serves as a member of Senate leadership is struggling to get above 50 percent in an open primary speaks volumes about the current political environment in Washington State, and it speaks volumes about the opportunity that Republicans have this November with Dino Rossi as our party’s nominee for the U.S. Senate,†said National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn (R-Texas) in a statement Tuesday evening.
This is yet another victory for conservatives and yet another example of Americans ignoring Washington elites and fighting to take their country back
PoliticoThis is terrific news, and puts conservatives a step closer to ripping the Senate right from the hands of the primitives. As Senator Jim DeMint stated in an afternoon email:
Chickens coming home to roost, indeed...
