> How did Marie Gluesenkamp Perez win Washington's 3rd District? | The Story | Nov. 18, 2022
How did Marie Gluesenkamp Perez win Washington's 3rd District? | The Story | Nov. 18, 2022
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Nov. 18, 2022 on The Story: U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, a Republican, held southwest Washington's 3rd Congressional District for six terms, until her vote to impeach President Donald Trump caused her support at home to splinter. When the dust settled after the 2022 primary, Herrera Beutler had been supplanted. Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and Trump-endorsed Republican Joe Kent advanced to the general. Gluesenkamp Perez was not favored to win, even though Herrera Beutler's loss gave Democrats a better opening than they'd had in years. Polling aggregator FiveThirtyEight gave her just a 2% chance of beating Kent. So how did she pull it off?
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