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Bryan & Reagan are both quoted in post-primary election coverage.
On Tuesday, Oregon held primary elections across the state. Bryan and I will be breaking down all those results and what they mean for the future of Oregon on our podcast next week. For now, you can see what we said to Oregon media below.
Bryan was quoted in the Oregon Capital Chronicle yesterday breaking down some of primaries for the Senate Republicans.
Bryan Iverson, a political consultant from central Oregon who formerly served as head of the Senate Republicans’ campaign arm and worked on state Rep. Christine Goodwin’s campaign against Robinson, said it’s hard to extrapolate much from primaries where only a quarter of registered voters turned out, but that there seemed to be a different tone among Republican primary voters in southern Oregon who preferred “obstructionist” candidates to the more “mainstream Republicans” who dominate eastern Oregon.
“In the Republican primaries, at least in southern Oregon, you see victories by the same hard-right-leaning candidates and not the everyday Republicans,” he said.
Meanwhile I tweeted (always a mistake) and ended up in Dick Hughes’s Capital Chatter column:
“I’m an Oregon Republican. I think it’s time for our party to stop denying election results and focus on winning elections instead.”
So said Reagan Knopp in a tweet this week on X, the social media platform once known as Twitter.
Seems like good advice.
Knopp was referring to the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to take up a case claiming Oregon’s vote-by-mail system was unconstitutional and rife with fraud. Among the plaintiffs was state Sen. Dennis Linthicum, R-Beatty, who on Tuesday handily won his party’s nomination for secretary of state, whose duties include overseeing state elections.