Central Washington voters to choose between two very different Republicans in U.S. House race

PROSSER, Wash. – Sitting at home in Prosser two days after the August primary, Jerrod Sessler felt confident. His lead over Rep. Dan Newhouse, a fellow Republican who has represented central Washington’s 4th congressional district for a decade, was growing wider as more ballots were counted.

Now the men would face off in the general election – an intraparty matchup made possible by Washington’s unusual top-two primary and Democrats’ failure to unite behind one candidate – when voters in the state’s most reliably conservative district will choose between two very different versions of the GOP.

“All I ever wanted was a head-to-head race with him, and he’s in trouble, because I’ve spent my life in circumstances like this,” Sessler said. “The writing’s on the wall that the people are wanting change.”

Sessler, a Navy veteran, had been up before dawn to appear on a Fox News segment questioning the military service of Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, the Democratic candidate for vice president who served for 24 years in the Army National Guard but didn’t deploy to a combat zone. After accusing Walz of “pretending to do the things that we do in normal life,” Sessler told the sympathetic Fox host that Newhouse had “betrayed the American people” by voting for various bipartisan measures over the years.

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