I first met Marie Gluesenkamp Perez in 2022, when she was running what was widely seen as a long-shot Democratic campaign for Congress in a solidly Republican, heavily rural part of Washington State.
Shortly before the election, the polling aggregator FiveThirtyEight estimated her chance of victory at a mere 2 percent.
Gluesenkamp Perez, whose father immigrated from Mexico, ran an auto shop with her husband and lived in a house they’d built themselves.
Gluesenkamp Perez voted to scrap Joe Biden’s plan for student debt relief.
In a largely brutal year for Democrats, Gluesenkamp Perez, again facing Kent, won re-election even as Trump once again carried her district.
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