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Hey, good morning. Patricia Murphy here. It's Saturday. This is Seattle now. Today we're bringing you stories from our public

radio newsroom colleagues. First, now that 2025's general election is wrapping up, it's time to shift

attention to the midterms. Democrats at the national level are strategizing about how to win.

As OPB's Eric Newman reports, one group is looking at the

centrist politics of a southwest Washington Democrat as a possible model. Here's Eric.

U.S. Representative Marie Glusencamp Perez sits with a dozen residents in the clubhouse of Vista del Rio

on a recent Tuesday. It's a manufactured

home park in Vancouver. She's here to talk with senior citizens about affordable housing.

Some in the groups say they're Trump supporters, but soon they start thanking the two-term Democrat

for being willing to vote on issues across party lines. Well, I really appreciate that.

It's the only path forward.

Yes.

Yes.

We gotta have 150 of you.

I mean that are reasonable, logical people who are...

Being a moderate blue-collar Democrat who can appeal to Republican and independent voters and win purple districts is a strategy

that some national groups are hoping to copy in 2026. As a first time politician a few years ago,

...