{"id":33431,"date":"2020-05-20T12:21:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T12:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/cliff-bentz-wins-gop-2nd-congressional-district-primary\/"},"modified":"2020-05-20T12:21:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T12:21:26","slug":"cliff-bentz-wins-gop-2nd-congressional-district-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/cliff-bentz-wins-gop-2nd-congressional-district-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Cliff Bentz wins GOP 2nd Congressional District primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>SALEM, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Former state Sen. Cliff Bentz has won the Republican primary for state\u2019s vast 2nd Congressional District covering eastern Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP 2nd District race was one of the most closely watched of Tuesday\u2019s primary as the incumbent, Rep. Greg Walden, the only Republican in the state\u2019s congressional delegation, is not running for a 12th term.<\/p>\n<p>Bentz beat former 2018 Republican Oregon gubernatorial candidate Knute Buehler and former state legislator Jason Atkinson. Bentz will be favored in the November election.<\/p>\n<p>Four Democrats sought their party\u2019s nomination and that contest was too close to call.<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsletter-form-story\">\n<div id=\"news-signup-block\">\n<h3>Sign up for Daily Newsletters<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2020 The Washington Times, LLC.\n                        <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/may\/20\/cliff-bentz-wins-gop-2nd-district-primary\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SALEM, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Former state Sen. Cliff Bentz has won the Republican primary for state\u2019s vast 2nd Congressional District covering eastern Oregon. The GOP 2nd District race was one of the most closely watched of Tuesday\u2019s primary as the incumbent, Rep. Greg Walden, the only Republican in the state\u2019s congressional delegation, is not running&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[4304,4303],"class_list":{"0":"post-33431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-bentz","9":"tag-cliff"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cliff Bentz wins GOP 2nd Congressional District primary - Virus Reports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/cliff-bentz-wins-gop-2nd-congressional-district-primary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cliff Bentz wins GOP 2nd Congressional District primary - Virus Reports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SALEM, Ore. 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