Yakima

Before he became a standout for the Rams and a star at Eastern Washington, Cooper Kupp was a hometown hero on the football fields of Yakima, Wash.

He was undersized and largely unrecruited out of Davis High in Yakima, Wash., where basketball was traditionally a bigger deal.

In his keynote speech at the Mainstream Republicans of Washington convention last week in Yakima, Reichert didn’t bring up Trump at all.

Farmers in the Yakima River Basin grow apples, berries, cherries, peaches, pears, corn and much more.

The please-can-we-not-talk-about-you-know-who vibe in Yakima was a reminder that a swath of Washington Republicans would very much like the Trump era to be over, even if many won’t say it out loud.