House Speaker Mike Johnson campaigns for Joe Kent, as GOP seeks to flip WA seat

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : At a midday rally outside a local Republican campaign office, Johnson, R-Louisiana, said he's confident that Kent will defeat first-term Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Washougal, and that Trump will return to the White House with a Republican-majority House and Senate to back him.
34% : Johnson on Thursday said that Trump was only interested in policies to "Make America First" and that "you don't have to worry about all these fantastical, all these threats and the talking points that the Democratic Party is putting out right now.
32% : It was a sign that Kent, who has had controversial associations with far-right extremists and has repeatedly denied that Trump lost the 2020 election and suggested the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack might have been a staged "intelligence operation," is being fully embraced by the GOP's Johnson-led majority in Congress.
23% : That year, Kent defeated Republican incumbent Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler in the primary, powered by GOP voters angry at her vote to impeach Trump for his role in stoking the 2021 Capitol attack.
14% : Kelly also said Trump had zero understanding of the Constitution or the concept of the rule of law.
6% : "John Kelly, a retired Marine general who was Trump's longest-serving chief of staff, said in a recent interview with The New York Times that Trump met the definition of a fascist and would govern like a dictator if allowed.

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