On a recent Saturday morning, Congresswoman Kim Schrier hyped up a group of volunteers ahead of phone banking and door knocking on a cloudy day in Issaquah, Washington.
She stood alongside three other candidates who are running for state seats. Schrier called them her partners at the state level, and said that they need her as a partner at the federal level whatever the outcome of the presidential election.
“If everything goes sideways, we need me as a guardrail — we all know what that means,” Schrier said to the group at her office. “And if everything goes awesome, we need partners for Kamala Harris in the White House because that is how we are going to deliver.”
Schrier, a pediatrician, is the only Democrat to represent Washington’s 8th Congressional District since it was created back in the early 1980s. She won the position in 2018.
Schrier has had competitive races to keep the seat since then. This election is no different.
She’s facing a challenge from Republican Carmen Goers, a commercial banker who ran unsuccessfully for a state House position in 2022.