'Hard to tell': GOP wants to believe SmileyforWA can win in suddenly competitive Washington Senate race
As Tiffany Smiley barnstormed across eastern Washington state in the final hours before Election Day, Republican voters flocking to see the brash Republican campaigning to unseat Sen. Patty Murray were quietly crossing their fingers. They want to believe but know as well as any Washingtonian how much the Democratic voters west of the Wenatchee Mountains dominate their state’s politics.
Smiley has made a hopeful believer out of Mahuika. But her initial skepticism explains the psychology of Republican voters in the eastern half of Washington state. “When the primaries happened — I looked at the Republican candidates, I looked where Tiffany was at and where Patty Murray was at, and I’m, like, ‘I’m so proud of Tiffany, I’m so happy for her, but I don’t know how she’s going to pull this off.
In other words, unless Smiley can squeeze every last Republican vote out of friendly territory, Republicans who do vote will be outnumbered by those whom Kline referred to as “Space Needle people,” his term for Democratic voters who predominate in, and adjacent to, Seattle and Tacoma and a reference to Seattle’s iconic, downtown high-rise landmark of the same name.
“I’m in a neck-and-neck race with Sen. Murray,” Smiley said in Wenatchee Thursday evening as she delivered her stump speech to a couple of hundred supporters who packed a “grange,” or meeting hall, to see her up close. “Every single vote counts, every single one. This is our chance, Washington — Wenatchee.”
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