Wahkiakum County first to report in WA-03 today. 693 additional ballots counted. Kent nets 33 votes over JHB and now trails her by 1,912 votes.
Cowlitz County reporting early. May report again this evening. 2,476 more ballots counted. Kent wins 31% of them and nets 244 votes over JHB. Kent trails by 1,668 votes, down from 1,945 at the start of today.
Here's the daily trend in WA-03. Only partial reporting so far today (3,169 more ballots counted from Wahkiakum and Cowlitz)
Day-by-day, county-by-county breakdown on the first tab.
Pacific County is third to report in WA-03 today. JHB actually net gained 39 votes out of 2,153 counted. She leads Kent by 1,707 for now, but big Clark County is about to drop.
Clark County reports 14,573 new ballots counted in WA-03. Kent net gains 741 and is now 966 votes behind JHB. Approximately 30k remaining to be counted next week.
Kent did not make quite as much progress against JHB in today's Clark County drop as he did yesterday (911 net gain on Thursday vs. 741 net gain on Friday). Of the Clark votes counted today, Democrat Marie Perez took 39.1%, Kent took 22.5%, and JHB 17.5%.
Cowlitz County makes their second report of the day in WA-03. Kent net gains another 428 votes on JHB, in addition to the 244 votes he gained in Cowlitz this morning. Total gain from Cowlitz today is 672 votes. Kent now trails JHB by 538 votes. 4k to count in Cowlitz next week.
Thurston is the only county left to report today. There are as many as 2k ballots still to go in the WA-03 portion, and it's one of Kent's best performing counties.
Thurston County final county to report in WA-03 this week. Kent net gains 281 votes from 1,320 counted today. He now trails JHB by 257 votes.
There will be no counting over the next two days, because we believe in weekends here in Washington state (thank a union!) Next reports will come from Clark, Cowlitz, and Thurston on Monday evening.
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With 3 of the 5 counties reporting today in (Clark, Cowlitz, Skamania), JHB's lead over Kent falls to 2,815. Down 1,115 from her 3,930 vote lead yesterday.
Kent won the 16k ballots counted in Clark today 26% to 20%. With ~45k in Clark to go, this will be *very* close.
A few maps and charts I am paying attention to today 🧵
Community transmission levels here in Washington
Latest R-effective (estimated disease transmission) is 1.84... one of the highest values since the pandemic began
Hospital occupancy never dropped much after the January Omicron wave because of postponed surgeries and other strains on our health care system... occupancy now trending back up