| Candidate | Votes | Pct |
|---|---|---|
| Nick Brown (D) | 2,067,494 | 55.72% |
| Pete Serrano (R) | 1,642,758 | 44.28% |
* Race percentages are calculated with data from the Secretary of State's Office, which omits write-in votes from its calculations when there are too few to affect the outcome. The Spokane County Auditor's Office may have slightly different percentages than are reflected here because its figures include any write-in votes.
Education: Graduated from Steilacoom High School in 1995. Holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Morehouse College and obtained a law degree from Harvard Law School in 2002.
Work experience: Served in Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps. He worked as a defense lawyer and prosecutor before working at the Department of Justice as an assistant U.S. attorney. Served as general counsel for Washington Gov. Jay Inslee. Appointed by Joe Biden as the U.S. Attorney for Western Washington. Now works part-time at Pacifica Law Group.
Political experience: First run for office.
Family: Married. Has two children.
Campaign finance: Raised more than $1.8 million as of Oct. 2, 2024, according to the Washington Public Disclosure Commission. Donors include: the Cowlitz Indian Tribe, Tacoma Firefighters Union, BlueChip Financial in North Dakota, Democratic Attorneys General Association, Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake Tribe of California, Washington State Auto Dealers Political Action Committee and the Washington Education Association PAC.
Education: Graduated from Placer High School in California in 1998. Holds bachelor’s degrees in Italian from the University of California, Davis. Earned a law degree from Florida Coastal School of Law in 2009. Earned a master’s degree in environmental law from Vermont Law School in 2010.
Work experience: Current general council and board president of the Silent Majority Foundation. Previously worked as an environmental lawyer for the U.S. Department of Energy at Hanford and as a lawyer at Energy Northwest.
Political experience: Elected to Pasco City Council in 2018. Currently serves as mayor of Pasco.
Family: Married. Has two children.
Campaign finance: Has raised more than $341,000 as of Oct. 2, 2024, according to the state Public Disclosure Commission. Donors include: the San Juan County Republican Party, Mystique Inc. doing business as Olympus Spa, and the Pasco Firefighters Union.
The longtime governor addressed the press and state Wednesday afternoon, speaking from a federal office building in downtown Seattle.
If Tuesday’s vote counts hold, Democrats will keep the keys to the governor’s mansion along with eight other powerful offices, including attorney general, superintendent of public instruction and lands commissioner.
Democrat Nick Brown and Republican Pete Serrano are battling over who will fill the post of outgoing Attorney General Bob Ferguson who announced he would not seek re-election this year and run for governor instead.
Pasco Mayor Pete Serrano and former U.S. Attorney for Western Washington Nick Brown are facing off in the race to become Washington attorney general, a post that supervises 800 state-employed attorneys and shapes the state’s legal policy.
Democrat Nick Brown and Republican Pete Serrano will advance in the race to be Washington’s next attorney general.Primary election ballots counted so far Tuesday night showed Serrano taking the lead with 42% of the vote, followed by Brown who pulled 36% of the vote. Democrat Manka Dhingra trailed in Tuesday’s counts with 22% of the vote
Washington’s three candidates for attorney general talked Trump, public safety and consumer protection during a debate Tuesday night.
The three leading candidates in the race for the next Attorney General of Washington have so far spent a combined $2.5 million on their campaigns, making it the second-most expensive race in the state behind that for governor. Whoever is elected will assume power over the state’s top legal office after November marks the first open election for the seat since 2012.
Evangelical preacher and self-described Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht has made good on his promise to sue the city of Spokane and members of the Spokane City Council over their vote last year to denounce then-Mayor Nadine Woodward for appearing on stage with Feucht and religious extremist Matt Shea.
The candidates who managed to clinch a party endorsement are not guaranteed a spot on the general election ballot come November. However, an endorsement earns them free publicity and fundraising help from the party in the coming months.
