{"id":2366100,"date":"2024-11-08T11:35:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T16:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/glusenkamp-perez-hopes-democratic-party-changes-candidates-it-uplifts-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-11-08T11:35:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T16:35:42","slug":"glusenkamp-perez-hopes-democratic-party-changes-candidates-it-uplifts-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/glusenkamp-perez-hopes-democratic-party-changes-candidates-it-uplifts-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Glusenkamp-Perez hopes Democratic Party changes candidates it uplifts &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fglusenkamp-perez-hopes-democratic-party-changes-candidates-it-uplifts-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2366100&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. Marie Glusenkamp-Perez (D-WA)\u200b is \u200dadvocating for the Democratic \u2063Party to change the types of candidates it supports after significant \u200blosses in the 2024 elections, including Vice \u2063President Kamala Harris&#8217;s defeat against \u2063President-elect\u2064 Donald Trump. Glusenkamp-Perez, reflecting on her narrow lead over Republican Joe Kent in her own race, emphasized \u200cthe need for the party to elevate\u200d voices from diverse backgrounds,\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fired-football-coach-sues-school-officials-for-retaliation-over-political-differences\/\" title=\"Fired Football Coach Sues School Officials for Retaliation Over Political Differences\">including parents<\/a>, rural residents, and tradespeople, believing that &#8220;normal people&#8221; can inspire others to run for office. She criticized her party&#8217;s current direction\u200d and stressed that a simple solution won&#8217;t resolve their issues; comprehensive changes are necessary.\u200b Following Trump&#8217;s \u200cvictory, frustrations\u2062 within the Democratic Party have grown, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ilhan-omar-other-leftists-distract-from-capitol-attack-by-focusing-on-gun-control-and-racism\/\" title=\"Ilhan Omar, Other Leftists, Distract From Capitol Attack By Focusing On Gun Control And Racism\">high-profile figures<\/a>\u200b like Sen. Bernie\u2062 Sanders calling for better\u2062 engagement with\u200d working-class voters.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Glusenkamp-Perez hopes Democratic Party changes the &lsquo;kinds of candidates&rsquo; it supports<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1876437\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3065573\/democrat-says-party-doesnt-respect-people-work-for-living\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Marie Glusenkamp-Perez<\/a> (D-WA) said she hopes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democratic-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Democratic Party<\/a> changes the candidates it uplifts following the brutal losses it received in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">2024 election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Glusenkamp-Perez&rsquo;s comments come as the party is dissecting Vice President Kamala Harris&rsquo;s loss to President-elect Donald Trump and the loss of the Senate majority. Control of the House has not been decided yet, though Democrats&rsquo; pathway to flipping the lower chamber is narrowing, making a GOP trifecta increasingly likely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3220424\/how-democrats-can-adjust-to-avoid-future-defeats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>DEMOCRATS WEIGH CHANGE IN STRATEGY TO AVOID MIDTERM AND 2028 DEFEATS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Glusenkamp-Perez&rsquo;s race against Republican Joe Kent hasn&rsquo;t been called by the <em>Associated Press<\/em> yet, but she currently has a three-point lead: 51.5% to 48.5%, with 87% reporting. Trump won her district in 2020 by 4.2 points.<\/p>\n<p>When asked in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/08\/us\/politics\/marie-gluesenkamp-perez-interview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">interview<\/a> with the <em>New York Times<\/em>, Glusenkamp-Perez, a centrist Democrat who has been a consistent critic of her own party, said her party should &ldquo;change the kinds of candidates we&rsquo;re supporting.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What I really hope happens is we change the kinds of candidates we&rsquo;re supporting,&rdquo; said Glusenkamp-Perez, who added that she hopes that &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/theres-no-love-lost-between-a-freshman-democratic-congresswoman-and-her-repeat-gop-rival-in-a-swing-washington-house-district-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"There\u2019s no love lost between a freshman Democratic congresswoman and her repeat GOP rival in a swing Washington House district - Washington Examiner\">normal people&#038;rdquo<\/a>; see her and &ldquo;decide they can run, too.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>She continued, &ldquo;There&rsquo;s not one weird trick that&rsquo;s going to fix the Democratic Party. It is going to take parents of young kids, people in rural communities, people in the trades running for office and being taken seriously.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether she should say &ldquo;I told you so&rdquo; to colleagues who failed to appeal to lived experiences, Glusenkamp-Perez said she&rsquo;s &ldquo;not going to bother saying it to some of these people.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;ve got to come to Jesus; I can&rsquo;t make them do that,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Party has been stuck in a whirlwind of frustration following Trump&rsquo;s win in the general election, with high-profile lawmakers such as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) chastising the party for failing to appeal to working-class voters.<\/p>\n<p>Glusenkamp-Perez also detailed an experience she had with Harris at a Christmas party where she felt like the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">vice president didn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t understand a concern she voiced about her district&rsquo;s values. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not super comfortable at that kind of thing,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d had a couple of beers, and I noticed that almost all of the garlands were plastic. My district grows a hell of a lot of Christmas trees,&rdquo; she recalled.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I was strong-armed into taking a picture. I said, &lsquo;Madam Vice President, we grow those where I live.&rsquo; She just walked away from me. There was kind of an eye roll, maybe. My thinking was it does matter to people where I live. It&rsquo;s the respect, the cultural regard for farmers. I didn&rsquo;t feel like she understood what I was trying to say.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, Glusenkamp-Perez believes the party needs to look inward instead of blaming outside forces.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a lot easier to look outward, to blame and demonize other people, instead of looking in the mirror and seeing what we can do,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;It is not fun to feel accountability. It requires a mental flexibility that&rsquo;s painful.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1876437\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1876437\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glusenkamp-Perez urges Democrats to rethink candidate support<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2366101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MGP-debate.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7064,32923,44622,32171],"class_list":["post-2366100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-candidates","tag-democratic-party","tag-glusenkamp-perez","tag-political-commentary"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MGP-debate.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2366100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2366104,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2366100\/revisions\/2366104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2366101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2366100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2366100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2366100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}