Transcript for Countdown to midterm elections

I'm Mary Alice parks in Tacoma Washington and we are fewer than a hundred days from the mid term elections and they are mid terms that matter. Arguably the most consequential mid term elections in a decade what happens in November could reshape Washington entirely. Democrats are looking for some foothold in the nation's capital which has been completely controlled by Republicans. If Donald Trump is a bull in the China shop Democrats are telling their voters that they can be some rains on the president's. Now Democrats best shot is need be winning the majority in the US House of Representatives. They would need to flip about 23 seats to Dudack and there are some very competitive districts that they're targeting. I've been reporting out here in Washington's eighth congressional district it's one of those districts that has Democrats really glued and because Hillary Clinton won here though the Republican did as well. It's an interest in purple district that actually has never had a Democrat represented it but Democrats think this might be there year. There's the read Democrats competing for the party nomination. To female doctors who are new to politics and and watch interest stating that there are two doctors in one race it's actually part of a much larger trend in phenomenon that we've been seeing. A round the country. A lot of women and an ex specially doctors engineers and researchers and scientists. Willing to have put aside of their previous profession. And try their hand at politics. It'll be interesting to see if voters think that they are the ones that could flip these districts. We're going to be watching that primary closely boaters take to the polls in Washington in just about a week. There's actually a lot of primaries coming up the beginning of August we're also tracking primaries in Michigan really closely. There's a gubernatorial race there that has been getting a lot of attention. Another health care professional former director at health care in the state a young gentleman who would be the first Muslim governor ever in the nation's history he's riding in getting a lot of headlines he's been endorsed by Bernie Sanders. We actually and a big projects borrowing races across the country. It's our eighteen for eighteen project the kinds of ray says that if you pay attention to you'll feel up to date. On everything happening ahead of November so check it out online. I'm Mary Alice parks reporting from beautiful Washington State thanks for watching ABC.

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