Shifting Political Tides in SW Washington's 3rd Congressional District
Few folks paid a moment’s attention in 2022 when a Portland auto body shop owner, Marie Gluesenkamp-Perez, made the finals for Congress in Washington’s 3rd District.
The district was trending Republican. All attention was on MAGA Republican Joe Kent, who ousted GOP Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, one of 10 House Republicans who dared to vote to impeach President Trump after events of January 6, 2021. (Beutler is now attempting a political comeback, running for state Lands Commissioner.) A vengeance-minded Trump endorsed Kent.
What a difference two years makes. MGP was given a 3 percent chance of winning on Nate Silver’s tout sheet. Today, she is in Congress.
On the day after this year’s primary, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee — who ignored Marie in 2022 — produced a collection of Joe Kent’s greatest hits. The DCCC is up on the air with spots denouncing Kent’s extremism in this rematch. The spots don’t feature party grandees, but salt-of-the-earth citizens.
https://www.postalley.org/2024/09/21/shifting-political-tides-in-sw-washingtons-3rd-congressional-district/