Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) announced Monday he will not seek reelection to a fourth term next year, signaling it was time for someone from a new generation of leaders to take over the office he has held since 2013.
After President Donald Trump took office in 2017, Washington state under Inslee quickly became an
“I just suggest we need a little less tweeting here and a little more listening,” Inslee told Trump then. “And let’s just take that off the table and move forward.” Jamal Raad, who has worked closely with Inslee since 2015, including on his presidential and reelection campaigns, described Inslee as one of the few people who is in politics “for the right reasons” and as immensely caring. Raad recalled frantically rewriting Inslee’s victory speech on the night of the election in 2016, when it was becoming clear that Trump would be elected president.
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