Lincoln County is "Trump Country"

LINCOLN COUNTY – During an initial count in the Nov. 3 general election night, voters overwhelmingly cast their ballots for incumbent President Donald J. Trump.

Lincoln County voters led the state with 72.29% support for President Trump and running mate Vice President Mike Pence. Only 25.69% of voters here supported Democrat challenger Joe Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris.

Only two Eastern Washington counties – Whitman and Walla Walla – were leaning toward Biden.

Statewide, Biden was leading with 60.76% to Trump’s 36.6%. The difference between the candidates topped 800,000 votes.

Nationwide, at press time, several states were still counting ballots and the election was too close to say who was leading.

Dent, Barkdull win Lincoln County elections

On the Lincoln County voters’ ballot, two spots were being heavily watched during the 2020 general election.

The 13th district legislative house seat will be retained by Rep. Tom Dent, R-Moses Lake, for the next two years, with the incumbent legislator pulling 69 percent of the vote district wide over his Democrat competitor Eduardo Castañeda-Díaz, D-Quincy.

The people of Lincoln County also chose Jeff Barkdull, who currently serves as Lincoln County Prosecutor, to replace retiring Lincoln County Superior Court Judge John Strohmaier. The initial tally showed Barkdull with 68 percent of the vote. Barkdull ran against current Lincoln County District Court Judge Dan Johnson who only received 30 percent of the vote as of election night.

Lincoln County voters vehemently oppose R-90

Despite vehement local objection to an “inclusive” sexual education mandate, Referendum 90 was passing statewide after an initial election night tally Nov 3.

Approval of R-90 reaffirms a law passed by Democrats in Olympia last spring that requires all public schools to start teaching a sexual education curriculum, including mandatory alternative lifestyle intimacy, in all public schools starting with kindergarten.

The initial count showed the measure had 1,916,159 supporting votes statewide, or 59.38%, as of press time. Opposition, at that time, tallied 1,296,337 votes, or 40.35%.

Lincoln County voters led in rejecting the curriculum, dubbed “seXXX ed” by many parents. Here, 73.97% of voters, so far, rejected the measure, while only 26.03% favored it. That was the highest percentage of rejection among the state’s 39 counties.

Voters in only 15 counties were supporting the referendum. East of the Cascades, only voters in Whitman and Walla Walla counties were supporting the sex ed requirement.