Kurt Dresner still trails incumbent Jon Pascal. But right now it looks like three of the four Cherish Kirkland-aligned "sanity slate" candidates are going to lose.
Another election update: progressive candidates Shilpa Prem and Jay Arnold have TAKEN THE LEAD in their races for the Kirkland City Council after previously being behind. So much for that reactionary anti-growth backlash in Kirkland.
Catie responded to the question about this today and proudly said she stood by it.
She's proud to say that trans girls and women are just "men pretending to be women".
This kind of bigotry isn't what we need on Kirkland City Council.
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Some extra context here, these shifts are much larger than the Biden 2020 -> Harris 2024 shifts.
I think there's more to it than that since Capitol Hill and Central District also saw (smaller) shifts.
Interesting to see large shifts at the precinct level between Alexis Mercedes Rinck's (2024) and Teresa Mosqueda's (2021) results despite a similar citywide result.