Democrat details the off-putting interaction she had with Kamala Harris that could explain election defeat

As Democrats statesman a governmental autopsy for however they spent $1 billion and mislaid the White House to Donald Trump contempt his ineligible troubles, 1 House Democrat who recovered a mode to triumph is reflecting connected a atrocious vibe she got from Kamala Harris.

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, who is connected the verge of reelection successful a agrarian territory successful Washington state, thinks Democrats request to find caller ways to scope retired to agrarian voters and others successful the heartland. 

'What I truly anticipation happens is we alteration the kinds of candidates we’re supporting,' she said.

But sometimes elections are determined by the candidates themselves, not conscionable the environment, and Gluesenkamp Perez revealed an off-putting enactment she had with Harris astatine a vacation enactment the VP hosted.

'When Harris archetypal came out, I was unfastened to talking with her. I cognize she called a batch of my colleagues; she ne'er called me. I’ve had 1 enactment with Harris, astatine her Naval Observatory Christmas party,' she told the New York Times.

The clash came implicit fake integrative trees. 

'I’m not ace comfy astatine that benignant of thing,' she said, detailing the vacation interaction-gone-bad.

'I’d had a mates of beers, and I noticed that astir each of the garlands were plastic. My territory grows a hellhole of a batch of Christmas trees. I was strong-armed into taking a picture,' she continued.

'I said, “Madam Vice President, we turn those wherever I live,"' said the occasional professional of her party. 

Evidently the enactment didn't spell implicit good with Harris, who hails from Oakland. and who faced blistering attacks from rival Donald Trump astir her ain authenticity. Her rival adjacent questioned whether she really worked astatine McDonald's arsenic she says she did.

'She conscionable walked distant from me. There was benignant of an oculus roll, maybe. My reasoning was, it does substance to radical wherever I live. It’s the respect, the taste respect for farmers. I didn’t consciousness similar she understood what I was trying to say,' she said.

Even if she took a excavation astatine her host's vacation decorations, Democrats mightiness privation to springiness the lawmaker a hearing: she represents a GOP-leaning district, and is connected the mode to defeating Republican Joe Kent by outperforming Harris successful her district.

Democrats are reflecting connected what went incorrect aft Trump ate into accepted consituencies, including national members and number voters.

His conjugation is becoming progressively downscale, portion Democrats, traditionally anchored successful the moving class, are gaining astir achromatic assemblage educated voters. 

The lawmaker's contention was a cardinal pickup accidental for Republicans against the Trump-backed Kent. 

Asked if she was amazed by the results, she responded, 'I got yelled astatine each clip I tried to accidental thing astir that. By everyone. I deliberation I’m astatine the platinum level of bipartisanship, wherever I’ve gotten threats of carnal unit from some sides.'

And arsenic Trump prepared to instrumentality implicit and possibly person unified power of government, she encouraged her enactment to look inward. 'It’s a batch easier to look outward, to blasted and demonize different people, alternatively of looking successful the reflector and seeing what we tin do. It is not amusive to consciousness accountability. It requires a intelligence flexibility that’s painful. So who knows?'