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The WA Republicans who wish the Trump era was over

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  • Politician Portrayal

    -38% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : At the annual Mainstream Republicans of Washington Cascade Conference at the Yakima Convention Center, Trump went virtually unmentioned.
45% : "How in the world is he going to work with President Trump?
43% : But for Washington state to really have a chance of correcting some of these very progressive policies, we need to move beyond Trump.
42% : Because it's clear that Trump is our nominee," Smiley said.
35% : "The Newhouse race in Central Washington's 4 Congressional District will be one test of whether Republicans are ready to move past Trump.
31% : U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse, one of the last two remaining House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump in 2021 over the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, name-checked Ronald Reagan in a Friday night kickoff speech, but not Trump.Asked about the verdict, which set off furious attacks on the judicial system and calls for revenge from Trump allies -- and praise from Democrats seeking to tie all Republican candidates to the newly minted felon --
30% : One of them, Tiffany Smiley, was at the Yakima Convention Center and unlike most in attendance had no problem lashing the jury verdict against Trump.
30% : Smiley, a Pasco veteran's advocate who ran for Senate against Sen. Patty Murray two years ago, argued voters deserve to know where Newhouse stands on Trump.
27% : With the presidential election fast approaching and the prospect of Trump being criminally sentenced just days before the start of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee next month, Garcia, the Senate contender, said he wants to see an end to the divisiveness plaguing U.S. politics.
26% : Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to a cover-up of payments to porn actress and director Stormy Daniels.
25% : "Newhouse allowed that he wonders whether any other person would have been prosecuted in the same manner as Trump, but concluded: "I don't have an answer to that.
22% : Gluesenkamp Perez, who flipped the 3 Congressional District for Democrats in 2022 in one of the biggest upsets of the year, is now running for reelection in an area that backed Trump.
17% : Newhouse was one of 10 House Republicans who voted in 2021 to impeach Trump, which would have barred him from running for president again if he'd been convicted by the Senate.
14% : In contrast to Newhouse's cautious reaction to the Trump verdict, his chief Republican challengers loudly echoed the ex-president's claims he was a victim of political persecution.

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