OR-05: Decision Desk HQ projects Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R) wins election to the U.S. House

[In It to Win It]

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[CentralMass]

1. That sucks.

[oregonjen]

2. Kick to the gut. Getting Kurt Schrader out in the primary felt so good.

[ColinC]

7. Doubt he still would've won this. But incumbency in itself might have helped a lot

[bottomofthehill]

3. The primary cost is that seat.

Sometimes we need the right candidate to win or hold a seat. This appears to be one of those cases.

[Kennah]

4. MSNBC hasn't called it, but it doesn't look good

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-elections/oregon-house-results

[In It to Win It]

5. I haven't seen anyone else call it either

but DDHQ generally beats the networks to projections.

[In It to Win It]

8. Wasserman just called it

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[SunSeeker]

6. Republicans like to use these Trojan horse candidates to flip Dem seats.

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They often use a woman of color as their Trojan horse. They used Michelle Steel, an Asian woman (Steel is her married name--she'smarried to the former CA Republican Party Chair), to unseat my former Dem congressman Harley Rouda here in California's Orange County. She is super right wing and anti-gay, but people get fooled by her looks.