{"id":76984,"date":"2026-08-04T22:54:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/democrat-marie-gluesenkamp-perez-survives-washingtons-crowded-primary\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T22:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T03:54:47","slug":"democrat-marie-gluesenkamp-perez-survives-washingtons-crowded-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/democrat-marie-gluesenkamp-perez-survives-washingtons-crowded-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez survives Washington\u2019s crowded primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two-term Democrat faced attacks from the left and right while defending a House seat in a territory Trump won<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez secured one of two spots in the state of Washington\u2019s crowded, all-party primary, overcoming criticism from both the left and the right to advance in one of November\u2019s most closely watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-congress\">US congressional<\/a> races.<\/p>\n<p>The two-term Democrat \u2013 known for bucking her party on key issues \u2013 heads into the general election as she seeks to defend a district carried by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> in 2024 and a district that remains central to the battle for control of the House of Representatives.<strong> <\/strong>She will face the Republican state senator John Braun in November.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/04\/marie-gluesenkamp-perez-washington-primary-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-term Democrat faced attacks from the left and right while defending a House seat in a territory Trump won The Democratic representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez secured one of two spots in the state of Washington\u2019s crowded, all-party primary, overcoming criticism from both the left and the right to advance in one of November\u2019s most closely &#8230; <a title=\"Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez survives Washington\u2019s crowded primary\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/democrat-marie-gluesenkamp-perez-survives-washingtons-crowded-primary\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez survives Washington\u2019s crowded 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-76984","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\/76984","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=76984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}