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   Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tina Kotek has won the race   
   to become Oregon’s next governor. The Associated Press called   
   the race for Kotek Thursday night, keeping her party in control   
   of the longtime blue seat after a tight race.   
      
   Kotek, formerly the Speaker of the Oregon House of   
   Representatives, won out over Republican opponent Christine   
   Drazan and Democrat-turned-Independent candidate Betsy Johnson.   
      
   She’d secured the Democratic nomination over 14 other candidates   
   in the state’s primary earlier this year.   
      
   The nonpartisan election handicapper Cook Political Report   
   shifted the Oregon governor’s race from “lean Democrat” to a   
   “toss up” in September after Johnson appeared poised to pull   
   support from Kotek.   
      
   Polls showed Drazan with a narrow lead in the weeks leading up   
   to Election Day, but an Emerson College Polling survey released   
   late last week showed the opposite, with Kotek up 4 points over   
   Drazan.   
      
   President Biden visited Oregon in mid-October to help urge   
   voters to back Kotek, saying the race “matters well beyond the   
   state of Oregon.”   
      
   Kotek will fill Democratic Gov. Kate Brown’s seat. Brown could   
   not seek reelection due to term limits in the state.   
      
   Brown pulled in dismal approval ratings amid frustration over   
   her response to the COVID-19 pandemic and issues like   
   homelessness in the state, and Democrats appeared concerned   
   voters would lump Kotek in with brown as a fellow Democrat — but   
   Oregonians still preferred progressive Kotek over Drazan’s   
   Republican platform.   
      
   Kotek is set to become one of the first two openly lesbian   
   governors in American history, joined by Massachusetts Attorney   
   General Maura Healey (D), who was projected to win the state’s   
   governorship.   
      
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