U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse gets another challenger from within his own party

Tiffany Smiley, a Republican who mounted an unsuccessful bid for U.S. Senate two years ago, on Monday jumped into the race to unseat GOP Congressman Dan Newhouse.

Newhouse has represented central Washington’s sprawling 4th Congressional District since 2015 and was among 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump in 2021, following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. He’s one of just two GOP lawmakers among those 10 still in the chamber.

Trump has already weighed in on the race, slamming Newhouse and endorsing Republican Jerrod Sessler. Sessler, a Navy veteran, cancer survivor, and former race car driver bills himself as an “America First Patriot.” The Prosser resident also scored the Washington State Republican Party’s endorsement during its convention last month in Spokane.

Smiley, a former nurse, traces her involvement in politics to nearly 20 years ago when her husband, Scotty, was badly hurt and blinded by a suicide bomber while serving in the U.S. Army in Iraq. During Scotty’s recovery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Tiffany Smiley says she “experienced government dysfunction for the first time.”

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2024/05/06/u-s-rep-dan-newhouse-gets-another-challenger-from-within-his-own-party/

The mean girl is back.