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DeFazio Wins 15th Term As Oregon's 4th District Congressman

Tiffany Eckert
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KLCC

Oregon Democrat Peter DeFazio has won a 15th term in the U.S. House of Representatives. He arrived at a Democratic watch party at Cozmic Pizza in downtown Eugene Tuesday night to a throng of supporters.

Representative DeFazio reflected on the mid-term election and his opponent, Art Robinson.

DeFazio: "It's not the greatest night for Democrats nationally. But I'm feeling good about Oregon at this point. We're a little island of sanity. You know I had Mr. Robinson again with his Wall Street billionaire who's now one of the largest contributors so for to the Republicans and super-PACs, and we cleaned their clock."

Art Robinson conceded Oregon's 4th District U.S. House race to Peter DeFazio Tuesday. He spoke at the Rogue Brewery in Eugene

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Robinson: "It's clear, there's enough results in and it's clear we won't win this race. And I'm disappointed to see that our Republican party will not win some of the other races either."

Robinson said he's ready to run against DeFazio again:

Citing his work as a chemist, Robinson said sometimes, a solution can take years.

Tiffany joined the KLCC News team in 2007. She studied journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia and worked in a variety of media including television, technical writing, photography and daily print news before moving to the Pacific Northwest.
Karen Richards joined KLCC as a volunteer reporter in 2012, and became a freelance reporter at the station in 2015. In addition to news reporting, she’s contributed to several feature series for the station, earning multiple awards for her reporting.
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