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**SEPTEMBER 28, 2022**

Why Oregon's Herschel Walker Could Win

BY AUSTIN AHLMAN

After trouncing crypto's golden boy, Andrea Salinas stares down
scandal-plagued millionaire Mike Erickson.

SALEM, OREGON - In what may end up being the most head-spinning race
of the midterm cycle, another Republican who, like embattled Georgia
Senate candidate Herschel Walker, paid for a former girlfriend's
abortion, and who is already threatening

to contest the results of the election should he lose, may be poised to
sweep a Democratic-leaning district in central Oregon.

So far, all indicators suggest Mike Erickson, a millionaire businessman
and scandal-plagued perennial candidate for public office, is outpacing
the fundamentals in his race against state representative Andrea
Salinas. The two are squaring off for Oregon's new Sixth Congressional
District, which stretches west from the state capital, Salem, and takes
in a slice of the southwestern Portland exurbs.

Salinas, a policy-focused progressive who worked for the late Majority
Leader Harry Reid and other members of Congress, has yet to define
herself and her opponent to voters after emerging from a primary that
featured unprecedented amounts of outside spending and the interference
of the national party. Her lack of name recognition has grown
increasingly concerning with only days remaining before ballots are sent
out in Oregon's vote-by-mail election.

Erickson, meanwhile, has used his personal fortune to put millions of
dollars in ads on the airwaves following a relatively easy primary
election. Salinas's own polling
, which
shows her with a razor-thin lead, admits that name recognition is still
a significant barrier for her candidacy.

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Democrat Yadira Caraveo is painting her opponent Barbara Kirkmeyer as an
extremist. Kirkmeyer is focused on inflation. BY JAROD FACUNDO

The Fish Stinks From the Head

So the January 6th Committee subpoenas Donald Trump. BY HAROLD MEYERSON

New Solutions Unveiled to Curtail L.A. County's Black Infant and
Maternal Death Rates

Experts hope new universal basic income programs and an innovative
maternal center will help protect Black infants and mothers. BY DAN ROSS

Left Anchor: Pining for the Fjords

Ryan Cooper reports in from the Faroe Islands. BY PROSPECT STAFF

 

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