Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) is providing some actual discuss in regards to the causes behind her occasion’s defeat within the U.S. presidential election, and didn’t mince phrases when requested by The New York Instances about her ideas on Vice President Kamala Harris’ marketing campaign.
The Democratic congresswoman ― who was reelected Tuesday by her rural and predominantly Republican constituency ― stated she has solely ever interacted with Harris as soon as, at a previous Christmas occasion held on the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C.
“I noticed that almost all of the garlands were plastic,” she informed the Instances. “My district grows a hell of a lot of Christmas trees. I was strong-armed into taking a picture. I said, ‘Madam Vice President, we grow those where I live.’ She just walked away from me.”
“There was kind of an eye roll, maybe,” Gluesenkamp Perez continued. “My thinking was, it does matter to people where I live. It’s the respect, the cultural regard for farmers. I didn’t feel like she understood what I was trying to say.”
Gluesenkamp Perez argued that what she described as Harris’ dismissive response finally factors towards the principle motive her occasion misplaced the election to Donald Trump.
“I was talking to a woman who runs one of the largest labor and delivery wards,” she informed the Instances. “She said 40 percent of the babies there have at least one parent addicted to fentanyl. What is empathetic — to tell them that’s their problem, or to take border security seriously?”
“People are putting their groceries on their credit card,” the congresswoman continued. “No one is listening to anything else you say if you try to talk them out of their lived experiences with data points from some economists.”
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Trump gained the Electoral Faculty, and is on monitor to win the favored vote, after working a racist marketing campaign centered on “blood thirsty” immigrants bringing “bad genes” into the nation. Gluesenkamp Perez has little religion, nonetheless, that Democrats will be taught from the loss.
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She famous that it’s “a lot easier to look outward, to blame and demonize other people” as an alternative of performing some “painful” inside reflection in regards to the state of the Democratic Occasion.
Within the days for the reason that election, there has certainly been loads of finger-pointing from and amongst Democrats.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) blamed “Green [Party] dipshits” Thursday for withholding assist for Harris, whose pledges of dedication to Israel amid the continued navy marketing campaign in Gaza had been a big subject within the election, as many progressives tried to warn her.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), nonetheless, urged the identical kind of interior reflection that Gluesenkamp Perez is asking for, saying Wednesday that it’s “no great surprise” that the Democratic Occasion, “which has abandoned working class people,” would discover this identical demographic has “abandoned them.”
“First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well,” Sanders stated. “While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.”
