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May 3 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Short thread: (1/5) If SCOTUS indeed is about to overturn Roe, it will put a spotlight on contrasting views of @SmileyForWA and @PattyMurray in WA's 2022 Senate race. #waelex
(2/5) Smiley, the likely GOP challenger to WA's five term senior senator Murray, reportedly backed Texas law banning virtually all abortions thehill.com/homenews/campa…
(3/5) But in an interview with me in Feb. she backed off that view, saying she didn't support the TX law, which allows individuals to sue anyone aiding an abortion seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p…
(4/5) Smiley contended in that interview her abortion views were not relevant to Senate race because WA voters have backed abortion rights in law.
(5/5) Obviously that assertion was already going to be sharply challenged by Murray backers. BUT, the potential overturning of Roe v. Wade will cast a sharper spotlight on Smiley's (and Murray's) specific positions in 2022.

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Happening now: Washington's 12 presidential electors voting in Electoral College seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p…
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