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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Nov 1, 2018, 05:03 PM Nov 2018

A Berniecrat win on Trump turf may not be too far-fetched

OLYMPIA — When the year began, talk of a Berniecrat getting elected in a bastion of Trump support in Western Washington sounded pretty far-fetched.

But in the 39th Legislative District, a solidly Republican turf the past two decades, the fetch no longer seems too far in a race for an open House seat.

And if a predicted blue wave crashes ashore east of I-5 on Election Day, it might just carry Democratic candidate Ivan Lewis into the Legislature.

He is up against Republican Robert Sutherland with the winner succeeding Rep. Dan Kristiansen, R-Snohomish, who is retiring.

Lewis is a 29-year-old father of four young children, a former volunteer firefighter who tends to pigs and turkeys on a hobby farm in Sultan and guides a math and reading center for children in Mukilteo.

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