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Who will WA Secretary of State Steve Hobbs face in November?
The first ballot drop shows an almost three-way tie for second place between Anderson, Hagglund, and Sen. Wagoner.
Joseph O’Sullivan
Joseph O’Sullivan is Crosscut’s former state politics reporter. Before joining Crosscut in 2022, O’Sullivan spent nearly eight years as Olympia bureau reporter for The Seattle Times. Before that, he c
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