Kurt Schrader

Observers and insiders recognized Congressman Kurt Schrader could have a problem holding on to his seat in this year’s election. Between redistricting that cut out about half the voters in the district he’s represented for a decade, a progressive opponent with name recognition from previous campaigns and Schrader’s controversial vote against the first version of the American Rescue Plan, Schrader faced his greatest challenge since being voted into the House in 2009. ...

A crowded field of candidates faced off to represent a new congressional district, and Rep. Kurt Schrader faces a primary challenger.

As Oregonians awaited the final vote tally early Wednesday morning, former Blue Dog Coalition Chair Kurt Schrader appeared poised to lose to his primary opponent, Jamie McLeod-Skinner. A Schrader loss would be stunning: The incumbent pulled in $2 million in outside super PAC support, half of it from the pharmaceutical...

Jamie McLeod-Skinner held an early lead against incumbent Kurt Schrader in the Democratic primary race for the redrawn U.S. House District 5, propelled by her relentless attacks on Schrader as an obstructionist who has stood in the way of progressive priorities like affordable prescription drugs. McLeod-Skinner also slammed Schrader for...

Kurt Schrader’s future in Congress was still on the line Wednesday, as still-partial returns showed fellow Democrat Jamie McLeod-Skinner mounting a robust challenge to the seven-term incumbent U.S. House member. Preliminary returns as of Wednesday afternoon showed McLeod-Skinner with 61% of the vote compared to 38% for Schrader, the...

Schrader was a leader of an effort by centrist Democrats to disrupt Pelosi and President Joe Biden’s plan to pair a bipartisan infrastructure package with a reconciliation bill that included Biden’s social policy agenda as well as an ambitious attempt to tackle the climate crisis. In June, Schrader had joined with Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., and seven other Democrats demanding that the bipartisan bill be split apart from the broader agenda.

(CNN) — A contentious House primary in Oregon is dividing national and local Democrats as Rep. Kurt Schrader, running now in a district where more than half of primary voters are seeing his name on the ballot for the first time, faces a challenge on Tuesday from progressive Jamie McLeod-Skinner.

None of Oregon’s congressional districts shifted as dramatically as the 5th District during last year’s once-a-decade redistricting. Once spanning from the coast to the Cascades, the 5th is now landlocked. And instead of Oregon’s capital, the district now takes in the ski-and-sun city of Bend. Kurt Schrader...

All other things being equal, labor organizations tend to back the incumbents they know rather than the challengers they’d be rolling the dice on. But 2022 seems to be the year local unions are breaking with seven-term incumbent Congressman Kurt Schrader and getting behind his Democratic primary challenger, Jamie McLeod-Skinner.

Gail Cordell: Clackamas County Democrats did not take lightly endorsing primary opponent, Jamie McLeod-SkinnerMy mailbox has been flooded with slick campaign fliers from Kurt Schrader. I am amazed at his audacity in claiming credit for standing up and doing the right thing only after having his arm twisted by protesters outside his office. Even more insidiously, he guts the essence of the legislation to benefit his major donors. He has become wildly out of touch with his district. For example, his glossy mailers and puppy-filled TV ads brag about his "leadership" in reducing prescription drug prices. The reality is that...

Former president of the National Organization for Women: Jamie McLeod Skinner is the truly pro-family candidate in this electionA warning for Oregonians in the newly-drawn 5th Congressional District who care about women's rights: A vote for Kurt Schrader is a vote against women's ability to realistically make their own life choices. Schrader claims to be pro-choice, but he isn't. True, he has voted against the Hyde Amendment, which blocks Medicaid from covering abortion, a common and necessary aspect of reproductive health care. But that was under pressure. He actually praised this odious law, calling it "a good balance" for a...