House Dem describes awkward past encounter with Harris: 'She just walked away from me'

A House Democrat says, pursuing Kamala Harris’ predetermination loss, that the vice president erstwhile "walked distant from me" and that "There was benignant of an oculus roll" during a past enactment she had with her successful Washington, D.C. 

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez recounted her acquisition to the New York Times arsenic the contention for her spot successful Washington’s 3rd Congressional District remains excessively adjacent to call. As of Friday, with astir 87% of the ballot in, Gluesenkamp Perez leads her Republican challenger Joe Kent by astir 11,000 votes. 

"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," Gluesenkamp Perez said to the newspaper erstwhile asked for her thoughts connected Harris' statesmanlike campaign. "I’ve had 1 enactment with Harris, astatine her Naval Observatory Christmas party."

"I’m not ace comfy astatine that benignant of thing. 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. I said, "Madam Vice President, we turn those wherever I live,’" Gluesenkamp Perez continued. "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." 

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Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., left, and Vice President Kamala Harris. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Harris' bureau did not instantly respond Friday to a petition for remark from Fox News Digital.

Heading into Election Day, Gluesenkamp Perez’s run told Fox News Digital that she had "no plans" to endorse Harris. 

In July, Gluesenkamp Perez also had called for President Biden not lone to driblet retired of the statesmanlike race, but besides to resign from his presumption arsenic commandant successful chief. 

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Vice President Kamala Harris delivers a concession code aft the 2024 statesmanlike election, connected Wednesday, Nov. 6, connected the field of Howard University successful Washington, D.C. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

"Americans merit to consciousness their president is acceptable capable to bash the job. The situation of assurance successful the President’s enactment needs to travel to an end. The President should bash what helium knows is close for the state and enactment the nationalist involvement first," she said astatine the time. 

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., is shown speaking astatine the U.S. Capitol connected March 6. (Getty Images)

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When asked by the New York Times this week however Democrats should respond to Harris’ predetermination loss, Gluesenkamp Perez, she said, "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?"