Win­ners declared in ‘top two’ pri­ma­ry for Wash­ing­ton’s 3rd con­gres­sion­al dis­trict

Demo­c­rat Marie Glue­senkamp Perez and Repub­li­can Joe Kent have fin­ished first and sec­ond in Wash­ing­ton state’s pri­ma­ry in the 3rd con­gres­sion­al dis­trict set­ting up a one on one matchup in November.Washington state uses a top two pri­ma­ry sys­tem in which all can­di­dates regard­less of par­ty appear on the pri­ma­ry bal­lot and the top two candidates.Gluesenkamp Perez has rep­re­sent­ed Washington’s 3rd Con­gres­sion­al Dis­trict, which con­sists of the south­west­ern coun­ties of Lewis, Pacif­ic, Wahki­akum, Cowlitz, Clark, and Ska­ma­nia, as well as a small por­tion of south­ern Thurston coun­ty, since 2022.Two years ago, Glue­senkamp Perez came out of nowhere to win a con­gres­sion­al seat against Kent, who had Trump’s back­ing in a dis­trict that hadn’t been in Demo­c­rat …