NEW: Race Rating Changes: OR-05 shifts toward GOP

With incumbent Kurt Schrader’s impending loss to progressive Jamie McLeod-Skinner, new race ratings are in for OR-05.

The Cook Political Report shifted the seat from a Lean Democratic to Toss Up.

CQ Roll Call shifted the race from Likely Democratic to Lean Democratic, noting “the seat is within reach for Republicans.”
  
NRCC Comment: “Districts in Oregon that once were safely blue are now well within reach for Republicans. Oregonians are fed up with the problems radical Democrats have created.”  – NRCC Spokeswoman Courtney Parella