To answer your question...probably not.
I think he looked at te poll numbers and realized that the ONLY people who’d vote for him lived in Seattle proper, or were students at The Evergreen State College.
Now, maybe, just MAYBE, he can get back to work at being our governor.
(Although the chances of that happening are Slim and None, and Slim just left town.)
“Now, maybe, just MAYBE, he can get back to work at being our governor.”
The State would be better off if he never returned to the office.