August 4, 2026 | Press Release

RNC Statement on WA-03 Primary Results

Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Joe Gruters released the following statement on the WA-03 primary: 

 

"John Braun is a veteran, a small business owner, and a bipartisan leader who tackles Washington's toughest problems and will relentlessly fight for taxpayers and to enact the Trump agenda. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is an animal-abusing, pro-prostitution, pro-tax hike nutcase whose entire history is full of fabrications, lies, scandal, and drug use." 

 

Reminder: President Trump won WA-03 in 2020 and 2024.

 

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez:

  • Pushed to raise income taxes
  • Funded fetish parties and nudist festivals
  • Abused animals
  • Sold and abused drugs according to her former roommates
  • Voted against protecting girls' sports
  • Refuses to say if she wants to open the border
  • Used her family's money to buy her home, despite claiming she's working class
  • Lied about being an auto-mechanic
  • Flip flopped on voter ID
  • Is hated by the Left and the Right