Republican Rep. Dan Newhouse Will Not Seek Reelection

Newhouse is the one of the last remaining Republican members of the House who voted to impeach Trump in 2021.

Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.) speaks as the House of Representatives debates the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump at the Capitol in Washington on Dec. 18, 2019. House Television via AP

Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.), will not seek reelection to the body in 2026, he announced on Dec. 17.

In a statement published on social media, Newhouse said he is stepping down “with confidence that there are now qualified and serious people expressing interest in this office.”

Newhouse, who represents Washington’s Fourth District, entered Congress in 2015 after a career in state politics.

He was one of the Republican members of Congress to vote to impeach President Donald Trump after the events of Jan. 6, 2021, and is one of two such members who still serve in the House, although Trump endorsed his opponents in successive primary contests.

Other Republican members who voted to impeach Trump—including Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), and Newhouse’s home-state colleague Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.)—were either defeated in primary contests or chose to not seek reelection. One such member, Rep. David Valadao (R-Calif.), still serves in the body.

Newhouse’s district covers the whole of central Washington, from the U.S. border with Canada south to the state line with Oregon, and includes the cities of Yakima, Kennewick, and Pasco.

The district has a Cook Partisan Voting Index (PVI) score of R+10, indicating that voters there are substantially Republican leaning, with the Republican primary contest likely to be more decisive in choosing the eventual representative.

Washington has an open primary system, meaning that the two candidates with the most votes advance to the general election regardless of their party affiliation.

The last Democrat to represent the district was Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.), who served from 1993 to 1995. Inslee later served as governor of Washington from 2013 to 2025, and ran for president in 2020.

Newhouse, 70, is from a political family. His father, Irv Newhouse, was a longtime state legislator in Washington from 1965 to 1999.

Correction: A previous version of this article misstated Rep. Dan Newhouse’s (R-Wash.) party affiliation. The Epoch Times regrets the error.