Marie Gluesenkamp Perez represents Washington’s 3rd District, which encompasses Clark, Cowlitz, Lewis, Pacific, Wahkiakum, and Skamania counties and a smidge of Thurston County.

It’s a relatively rural district that has voted for President Trump three times. 

Somehow, she has been able to convince a good number of those Trump voters to ALSO send her, a Democrat, to Congress. 

And that’s put Gluesenkamp Perez in a unique and small club of Democrats being asked to diagnose their party’s problems and come up with a vision for the future.

So what does it take to lead from a vulnerable seat, and what are the lessons Democrats can draw from what’s happening in Southwest Washington?

One of those might be – figure out the solution to the gerontocracy in Congress.

GUEST: Rep. Marie Gluesenkam Perez

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• Gluesenkamp Perez Statement on Senate Passage of Budget Reconciliation Bill
• How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump | The Ezra Klein Show
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