A blue wave in the Pacific?

A House district in Washington state may be more difficult for the GOP to hold after Republican primary voters drove out their incumbent lawmaker who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Last month, Republican Joe Kent beat Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler in Washington’s all-party primary. Trump endorsed Kent’s insurgent bid against Herrera Beutler in Washington’s 3rd Congressional District, a southwest Washington seat to which Herrera Beutler was first elected in 2010. In February 2021, she joined nine other House Republicans in voting to impeach Trump over the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, and the former president vowed revenge.