Washington — 8th District

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State Sen­a­tor Rebec­ca Sal­daña, left, with State House hope­ful Kelabe Tewolde, right, at the Wash­ing­ton State Capi­tol in Olympia (Cam­paign pub­lic­i­ty photo)

Good evening. It’s the Fri­day after Top Two Elec­tion Day and new bal­lot tab­u­la­tions are land­ing from Wash­ing­ton State’s most pop­u­lous counties.

There’s been a few lead changes today and we’re get­ting a more com­plete pic­ture of each con­test now that most bal­lots are count­ed. Let’s dive into the new results.

In the race for the 8th Con­gres­sion­al Dis­trict, Repub­li­can Spencer Meline has again swapped sec­ond place with fel­low Repub­li­can Trinh Ha, with Meline surg­ing to a 1,269 vote advan­tage for sec­ond place. U.S. Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Kim Schri­er, the Demo­c­ra­t­ic incum­bent, is still in the lead with 53.…