The Democrat Fighting the Gerontocracy

The Democrat Fighting the Gerontocracy

It was June 27 of last year, and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez had to turn off the TV in her Capitol Hill apartment after just 20 minutes.That was the night Joe Biden was stumbling over his words in the presidential debate that would doom his reelection bid. “It just was too painful,” Gluesenkamp Perez, a 37-year-old auto repair and machine shop owner turned Democratic congresswoman from Washington State, told me in a recent interview.During the Democ…