U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez listens to crew members aboard the Yaquina dredging vessel whereas taking a tour alongside the Columbia River in August. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian)
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Though Democrats have scooped up college-educated voters, in addition to these in coastal cities and concrete areas, many different voters really feel alienated by the occasion — particularly as political correctness has shifted vocabularies, Menaldo stated.
“They’re living in bubbles that speak their own language,” he stated.
Perez, then again, speaks merely and clearly, typically mentioning she’s going through lots of the identical points as her constituents. Different publications have talked about she drinks whiskey sodas and beer. And conversations along with her sound identical to that — conversations and never speeches.
“She can speak like a regular person,” Menaldo stated.
Some Democratic speaking factors — akin to climate-change initiatives, college-debt forgiveness and social-justice points — could not resonate with people who find themselves most involved about affording groceries and fuel after inflation drove client costs up 21.4 p.c since 2020, based on Bankrate.
“The issues (Perez) is talking about aren’t all these really academic, abstruse issues that are all about the concerns of graduate students at the University of Washington,” Menaldo stated. “She just seems like a genuine, normal person who can speak to normal people about normal things.”
