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Henrik's avatar

Ann Davidson being a bonafide Trumper will probably badly hurt her.

Statewide, Democrats picked well in the AG race this year going with Nick Brown rather than Manka Dhingra, but I’m not sure I trust Seattle voters to have that same type of discipline what with a lot of candidates likely to want a bite at it. If you have a liberal but normal DA candidate and Trump is as unpopular in Seattle next fall as he was last time around then Davidson is likely to lose, and lose badly (though she’ll get some Harrell voters for sure). But if they go with a Stranger candidate again then she has a narrow chance

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Ethan (KingofSpades)'s avatar

She is? That sounds like a big blunder.

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Henrik's avatar

IIRC she joined the GOP in 2020.

She’s very quietly kept her head down as city prosecutor but don’t think it won’t come up

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stevk's avatar

She's stated multiple times that she voted for Hillary and Biden: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-city-attorney-rivals-face-blowback-over-anti-police-tweets-republican-affiliation/. I'm not a supporter of hers (although I would have voted for her over Thomas-Kennedy who represents exactly the kind of public figure that cost us votes in the 2024 general election, if I lived inside the city limits) but I don't think she's a Trumper either.

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Henrik's avatar

Hmm, fair.

The choices in 2021 were both not great. I’m hoping a serious candidate can take on Davidson without heading into Nicole Thomas-Kennedy territory. “People should not smoke fent on public buses” should not be a controversial position for a prosecutor

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Ethan (KingofSpades)'s avatar

I wouldn't be surprised that if NTK had gotten elected, she'd have made Chesa Boudin look like Wyatt Earp.

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