PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Republican Scott Bruun (BROO-ihn) has won the Republican nomination to run for the U.S. House against Democratic incumbent Kurt Schrader in Oregon’s 5th Congressional District.
With 61 percent of the expected vote counted, Bruun had 63 percent. Retired timber company executive Fred Thompson of Salem had 37 percent.
The district stretches from the Cascade Range through the central Willamette Valley to the coast.
Schrader was unopposed in the Tuesday primary.
