Dem Rep who won Trump district shares eye-opening Harris anecdote: I didnt feel like she understood what I was trying to say

A Democrat who represents a GOP-leaning House district in Washington State has shared a revealing interaction she had with Vice President Kamala Harris months before her electoral shellacking by Donald Trump.Rep.Marie Gluesenkamp Perez told the New York Times in an interview published Friday that she initially had high hopes when Harris became the Democratic nominee — but never got so much as a phone call to shore up her support.“When Harris first came out, I was open to talking with her.

I know she called a lot of my colleagues; she never called me,” the freshman Democrat said.“I’ve had one interaction with Harris, at her Naval Observatory Christmas party.”“I’m not super comfortable at that kind of thing.

I’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,” she recalled.“I was strong-armed into taking a picture.

I said, ‘Madam Vice President, we grow those where I live,'” Gluesenkamp Perez went on.“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’s the respect, the cultural regard for farmers.

I didn’t feel like she understood what I was trying to say.”The apparent disdain by Harris for Gluesenkamp Perez, who also owns an auto body shop, and her working-class constituents was repaid Tuesday night.Trump, 78, won the election with a majority of support from Americans without four-year college degrees, according to a Fox News voter analysis.Gluesenkamp Perez, who described herself as being “at the platinum level of bipartisanship,” is heading for a second term representing the rural Third Congressional District, which is comprised of counties that Trump handily won in the last three election cycles.The Democratic incumbent declared victory Thursday night after a local newspaper projected her as the winner, with a lead over Republican opponent Joe Kent of nearly 11,...