PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — With the Washington state primary just around the corner, one focus will be Congressional District 3.
That district covers Southwest Washington, including Clark, Lewis and Cowlitz counties. It’s home to cities such as Vancouver, Camas, Washougal and Battle Ground. It’s also a swing district, voting for Donald Trump for president in 2020 by about a 4% margin.
Joe Kent, a retired Green Beret and Republican, returned to Eye on Northwest Politics to discuss his run for the congressional seat once again, after previously losing to Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez .
Kent said he is choosing to run again because he claims Gluesenkamp Perez – who is running to keep her seat – is supporting policies that he claims are “destroying the country.”
Should he succeed in the primary on Tuesday, Kent said he intended to hold her accountable for her voting record.
“She has been supporting Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s destruction of our country, she voted to keep the border wide open, she’s voted for all of the ‘Bidenomics’ that’s causing this inflation that’s hurting working families,” he emphasized. “She voted to allow biological men into our daughter’s dressing rooms. She’s voted again to prioritize foreign aid and foreign wars that have taken us to the verge of World War III over the citizens here in the district. So I plan on holding her accountable for her voting record and outlining how I’m going to fix these problems.”