Centralia, Washington (AP) – Rep. Marie Gluenskamp Perez gave the Democrats a infrequent victory last autumn when she defeated a Maga -Diehard in a Republican district of Washington in Washington.
The owner of the auto repair shop avoided the partisan of the auto repair business as a model for the winners of the workers who had rejected the Democratic Party in the elections last year and focused on maintaining Peoply in their district to support-VA clinics or supporting the financing finds for occupational business classes.
The voters decide whether the strategy of the second -term congress members is successful by the voters. For some progressive in your district, however, it is inadequate to counter President Donald Trump’s second term in the White House.
In two town halls that she recently held, asked the crowds or sing: “Consist it!” Many swore to support a more liberal primary challenger.
“It is a really bad time to be centrical,” said Liz Oxford, a 39-year-old mother from Centralia. “She just comes up again and again as one of the few Democrats who stand on the side with the Republicans, and that is really difficult to accept. It is as if they have run as a democrat, and at the moment Democrats have to draw a tough border.”
Is it in danger?
Hundreds of people appeared in their town halls last month. Many were irate with their recent voices to disturb the democratic MPs of Texas, Al Green, because of the disturbance of Trump’s speech before the congress and for a measure that would require the proof of citizenship to register for voting.
How good Gluensenkamp Perez, 36, navigates, could lend a hand criticize whether Democrats can repeat the house next year. But in a largely rural, red district, some say that a discount from the left voters could actually lend a hand her.
“In a district like Washington 3, you can win or lose independent and moderated Republicans to cross the huge gap between the parties and vote for them,” said Sandeep Kaushik, a political consultant based in Seattle who worked on Klulenkamp Perez ‘first campaign in 2022.
Gluenskamp Perez is the only Democrat for federal or nationwide that bears the district in at least one decade, noted. Even Democratic Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, former governor Jay Inslee and the newly elected governor Bob Ferguson, failed there, even though they had won great nationwide.
The predecessor of Gluensenkamp Perez, the six-term Republican Jaime Herrera Beutler, did not make it from Primary 2022. The right voters who were annoyed by her voice to take Trump, threw off her lot with Joe Kent, a former soldier in the US army, who promoted Trump’s 2020 elections and conspiratories over the 6. January 2021 were advertised.
In the general elections this year, Gluensenkamp Perez Kent Kent kept less than one percentage point and turned the seat for Democrats.
When she made a remuneration with Kent last autumn, she was considered one of the most endangered members of the congress – but won with almost 4 points and exceeded both Trump and democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
So far, a democrat, Brent Hennrich, has announced a primary challenge. On his website, the former cinema operations managers, who applied for the moderation of Gluensenkamp Perez as the wrong approach as a wrong approach this week.
“With our crisis in our nation, the Democrats in the congress have to do everything in their power to block the agenda of the radical Trump, but our incumbent was far too willing to compromise compromises for invoices that threaten our rights, our prosperity and health,” wrote Hennrich.
What does she stand for?
Analysts across the country have pointed out the nut-and-bolts approach of the congress members, which they referred to as “positive political agenda”-as a means of democratic problems. For them, this meant securing money for shop programs at vocational schools, pushing the VA, reopening a clinic in Chehais so that veterans do not have to go to the Olympics, and have to push that the lumberjacks have to create skinny forests and reduce wild fever.
“Political polarization was really destructive for our democracy,” said Glowekamp Perez of Associated Press in an interview. “If you try to build a political agenda that is popular when you try to build a greater feeling of democracy, in my opinion it is not possible to rule out people. It is about building a larger team just more useful for more people.”
The voters in the political spectrum have praised their work on local questions. But in her last town halls, the anger about some of her voices was obvious.
This includes a vote for the Save Act, for which everyone who registers for the vote requires proof of citizenship. Critics call it a voter suppression instrument to prevent the idea of ​​preventing illegal immigrants from voting in US elections-an exceptionally infrequent event. The legislation could make it challenging for women who have taken their husband’s last name or transgender person whose names do not match their birth certificates.
Gluensenkamp Perez incorrectly called the bill, but said that only citizens are a popular idea in their district. She also said she knew that it would not pass in the Senate.
This irate Carol Brock, the former chairman of the Lewis County Democrats.
“I am all in favor of working over the aisle. I live in Lewis County – there are more republicans than grass here,” said Brock after the town hall in Centralia. “It doesn’t mean that I give up my values. If you don’t believe in it, why did you vote for it?”
Tina Podlodowski, the former chairman of the Democratic Party of the State Dreier period, posted after the Save Act vote on Facebook: “Democrats can and must do better in WA3 than Marie Glodenkamp Perez.”
This week, the Democrats of Pacific County began to think about whether she should ask the state party not to support Gloudenkamp Perez as long as another democrat challenges her.
You ask fans to select their battles
Gloenekamp Perez said that she spoke against Republicans if her actions have real effects on people in their district: the financing of the national ocean and atmospheric administrative bigs based on the fishermen based on the support of firefighters from Wildland, the hunger aid programs from the cooling of hunger aid programs or medical cuts that are “killing people”.
“There is a lot of dismay and anger and anger about things that don’t have the power of the law,” she said. “It is really important that we do not have a torch in relation to things that are not experienced by most people – or any person -.”
Maybe nobody enjoyed the increasing criticism of Gluensenkamp Perez more than the Republicans who say that it is “abandoned” by Democrats.
“Democrat Marie Glowekamp Perez in need of protection is primed and nobody shocked,” said the National Republican Congress Committee in a statement. “It is too weak for the far left, too radical for Washington’s families, it doesn’t belong anywhere.”
Some of her followers say that Gluensenkamp Perez has to choose their battles – and the Democrats in their district too.
“We cut off our nose to annoy our face to make statements about the ejection of your office,” said Bob Guenther, a Lewis County Labor activist. “We have to be thoughtful. We have to turn over the congress or we are in trouble.”
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