WA-10: Who's Running for Washington's Open 10th Congressional District Seat? The List Is Long
The vacancy left by outgoing Congressman Denny Heck has brought a wave of would-be successors in Washington state’s 10th Congressional District.
Nineteen candidates will be on the ballot this August for the primary election to replace him, each providing their best case for what role they’d play in Congress’s response to the coronavirus recession and how they’d serve constituents of the 827-square-mile district.
Eight of those candidates are running as Democrats, eight are running as Republicans, one is running as an independent, one is in the Essential Workers Party and one has filed as a member of the “Congress Sucks Party.”
Washington’s 10th Congressional District was created in 2011 as part of a realignment of districts following the 2010 United States Census. Heck has been the only person to serve as representative in the district, with many having labeled it as a district made from the Olympia congressman, a fairly moderate Democrat.
And with the August primary election less than a month away, it’s likely two moderate Democrats could retain it. According to the Cook Partisan Voting Index, which measures how strongly a district leans either Republican or Democrat compared to the nation as a whole, Washington’s 10th ranks fairly moderate at D+5, based on the last two presidential election cycles.
Democrat candidates Kristine Reeves, Beth Doglio, Marilyn Strickland and Phil Gardner have been seen in recent months as possible frontrunners, having raised at least $1 million between the four of them.
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