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Poll: Washingtonians worried, anxious about the 2024 election
The presidential race is still a year away, but the latest Crosscut/Elway poll shows voters are already dreading a rematch between Biden and Trump.
Joseph O’Sullivan
Joseph O’Sullivan is Crosscut’s former state politics reporter. Before joining Crosscut in 2022, O’Sullivan spent nearly eight years as Olympia bureau reporter for The Seattle Times. Before that, he c
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