Red-district Democrat recalls Kamala Harris blowing her off at Christmas party: 'Kind of an eye roll'

A uncommon House Democrat representing a reddish country recalled a past awkward brushwood with Vice President Kamala Harris, saying Harris erstwhile fundamentally rolled her eyes astatine a interest the congresswoman had astir her district.

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., represents the agrarian 3rd District successful the state, which is 1 of the lone GOP-leaning districts with a Democratic subordinate successful the country. Asked for her thoughts successful a caller interrogation connected Harris' 2024 run successful the wake of her bruising loss to President-elect Donald Trump, Perez recounted Harris shrugging disconnected her worries astir integrative decorations astatine a Christmas enactment alternatively of utilizing existent timber.

"When Harris archetypal came out, I was unfastened to talking with her," she told the New York Times. "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.

"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.’ 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."

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., participates successful the Bipartisan Defending Borders, Defending Democracies Act quality league successful the U.S. Capitol connected Wednesday, March 06, 2024 (Getty Images)

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Fox News Digital reached retired to a Harris spokesperson for comment.

Perez ran up of Harris by respective points and appears to beryllium heading toward re-election, and she told the New York Times that nationalist Democrats didn't talk to the worries of her district, specified arsenic the fentanyl situation and the precocious outgo of food.

"People are putting their groceries connected their recognition card," she told the New York Times. "No 1 is listening to thing other you accidental if you effort to speech them retired of their lived experiences with information points from immoderate economists."

Washington, arsenic the results presently stand, volition beryllium the lone authorities successful the state to determination leftward from the 2020 election, with Harris somewhat improving connected Biden's 19.2-percent triumph implicit Trump that year. Otherwise, Tuesday was a grim nighttime for the vice president and Democrats nationally, who mislaid the Senate and volition apt stay successful the House minority.

Democratic statesmanlike nominee Vice President Kamala Harris looks astatine a show of the lawsuit from backstage, conscionable earlier taking the signifier for her last run rally, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, successful Philadelphia. Harris mislaid the predetermination connected Tuesday to President-elect Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Perez told the Times she was unsure if Democrats would marque the changes indispensable to instrumentality to powerfulness aft being repudiated. One of the cardinal stories of the predetermination and the past decennary has been the melodramatic exodus of working-class voters who erstwhile loyally supported Democrats.

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"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," Perez said. "So who knows?"

Trump improved dramatically successful 2024 connected his show successful the 2020 election, winning backmost specified plaything states arsenic Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada and Georgia, and appearing astir definite to clinch Arizona erstwhile the results are tallied. He saw improvements with voters successful respective racial, property and socioeconomic demographics.

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He volition apt beryllium the archetypal Republican to clinch the fashionable ballot successful a statesmanlike contention since George W. Bush successful 2004. He's besides the archetypal Republican to triumph Nevada since Bush that year.