Community activist Aaron Dixon is running for the Green Party’s nomination to challenge Sen. Maria Cantwell. This is the second challenge to Cantwell over her voting record.
The two rivals could siphon Democratic votes and help Republican Mike McGavick. According to the P-I, it’s a flip of the 2000 Senate race:
Dixon could do for McGavick what another third-party candidate, Libertarian Jeff Jared, arguably did for Cantwell when she unseated Republican Sen. Slade Gorton in 2000. Cantwell won by 2,229 votes, and many Republicans think the 64,734 votes for Jared cost Gorton the election.