A Democrat-turned-independent is threatening to give Oregon its first Republican governor in decades.
in the state have helped drive down Democratic Gov. Kate Brown's approval ratings and created an opening for attacks against Kotek, a former state House Speaker.
“She can kind of signal to these people, ‘Even though I’m running as an independent, I’m still kind of a Democrat, and I’m certainly not running as far to the right as Drazan,'" O’Brian said."It’s a political in-between that really shakes things up.” “Had she [Johnson] not run, it wouldn’t have been such a competitive race. Oregon has been very blue for a very long time,” said Rebecca Tweed, a Republican strategist in the state.
released last week found that 9% of Republican voters said they support Johnson, while 17% of Democratic voters said they support her. Johnson’s ads have focused prominently on public safety. In one spot released this week, she calls the state “a total mess,” listing “tent cities, drugs and crime” as reasons behind her charge.spot features a voter talking about her son’s lethal fentanyl overdose, blasting Kotek for having worked to pass a bill that legalized “hard drugs.”
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