{"id":76953,"date":"2026-08-04T07:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/washington-state-democrat-who-flipped-pro-trump-district-faces-tough-primary\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T07:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:55:32","slug":"washington-state-democrat-who-flipped-pro-trump-district-faces-tough-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/washington-state-democrat-who-flipped-pro-trump-district-faces-tough-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington state Democrat who flipped pro-Trump district faces tough primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incumbent Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a moderate who owns an auto repair shop, hopes to retain congressional seat<\/p>\n<p>The two-term Democratic congresswoman Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is heading into one of the country\u2019s most closely watched contests on Tuesday after national recognition for flipping a Republican seat in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Representing Washington state\u2019s third district, Gluesenkamp Perez finds herself squeezed between Democrat and progressive <a href=\"https:\/\/brenthennrich.com\/\">Brent Hennrich<\/a> and Republican state senator John Braun on her right. There are<a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Washington%27s_3rd_Congressional_District_election,_2026_(August_4_top-two_primary)#google_vignette\"> six other candidates <\/a>on a single crowded ballot and the top two finishers will advance to the November general election regardless of party.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/04\/washington-state-primary-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incumbent Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a moderate who owns an auto repair shop, hopes to retain congressional seat The two-term Democratic congresswoman Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is heading into one of the country\u2019s most closely watched contests on Tuesday after national recognition for flipping a Republican seat in 2022. Representing Washington state\u2019s third district, Gluesenkamp Perez finds &#8230; <a title=\"Washington state Democrat who flipped pro-Trump district faces tough primary\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/washington-state-democrat-who-flipped-pro-trump-district-faces-tough-primary\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Washington state Democrat who flipped pro-Trump district faces tough primary\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}