GOP’s Chavez-DeRemer flips Oregon 5th Congressional District - Oregon Public Broadcasting

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Republican Lori Chavez-DeRemer has won the unfastened U.S. House spot successful Oregon’s 5th Congressional District, flipping the territory for the GOP successful a hard-fought contention that drew millions successful extracurricular wealth to the state.

Chavez-DeRemer’s triumph makes her the archetypal Latina congresswoman from Oregon, a favoritism besides sought by 6th District Democratic campaigner Andrea Salinas. That contention remained excessively aboriginal to call.

The territory was antecedently held for 7 presumption by mean Democrat Rep. Kurt Schrader and was targeted by the GOP, which saw the 5th arsenic susceptible aft the long-time incumbent's superior decision by progressive campaigner Jamie McLeod-Skinner.

Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Republican superior campaigner successful Oregon’s 5th legislature district, 2022.

Courtesy of Lori Chavez-DeRemer

This is the 2nd legislature spot successful the Northwest to flip to the other party. In Washington’s 3rd District race, Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez secured a triumph implicit Republican Joe Kent implicit the weekend.

The 5th was importantly redrawn pursuing the 2020 U.S. Census to see parts of much blimpish cardinal Oregon, and trended somewhat little bluish this election. Democrats inactive clasp a flimsy vantage successful elector registration, but some campaigns focused connected the astir one-third of unaffiliated voters successful the district.

Chavez-DeRemer, a tiny concern proprietor and erstwhile politician of the Portland suburb of Happy Valley, built her run astir concerns implicit homelessness and rising transgression successful Portland, which neighbors immoderate of the district’s suburban communities.

McLeod-Skinner, an lawyer and determination exigency coordinator, antecedently ran unsuccessfully for Oregon’s 2nd Congressional District successful 2018. She sought to item Chavez-DeRemer’s shifting stance connected termination and painted her arsenic a far-right campaigner who was excessively blimpish for the district.

The ace PAC linked to House Republicans, the Congressional Leadership Fund, spent much than $2.7 cardinal connected respective ads successful the district, which stretches from Portland’s affluent confederate suburbs to the cardinal precocious godforsaken metropolis of Bend.

Elsewhere successful Oregon’s U.S. House races, Democrats maintained power of the 1st, 3rd and 4th Districts, and the GOP kept the sprawling 2nd, which encompasses astir two-thirds of the state.