Progressives never loved moderate Rep. Kurt Schrader. But it wasn’t until the last few years that he truly surfaced on the radar of national left-wing activists.
Both moderate and progressive Democratic strategists interviewed for this story said McLeod-Skinner is a serious primary challenger. Her campaign’s poll, which was conducted in early February by Patinkin Research Strategies, found 37 percent of likely Democratic primary voters backed Schrader and 34 percent supported McLeod-Skinner. Thirty percent were undecided.
Schrader has already used his war chest to beat McLeod-Skinner in the race to get on television. He began airing commercials in early March, which tout his background as a veterinarian and paint him as a fighter taking on pharmaceutical drug companies and big money in politics — getting ahead of McLeod-Skinner’s biggest criticisms of him.
Schrader has the benefit of familiarity with left-wing challenges: He easily defeated Mark Gamba, mayor of Milwaukie and asupporter, in the 2020 Democratic primary. And he can point out that McLeod-Skinner does not live in the district. Asked about the money gap between them, McLeod-Skinner said she is planning to raise $1 million for the primary and pointed out that she brought in $1.3 million in her previous race for Congress in 2018 in a different district. She lost that election in November to the Republican nominee, though she performed more strongly than the Democratic candidate in 2016.in a primary run for secretary of state in 2020, McLeod-Skinner’s supporters see in those results a path to victory for her this year.
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