ICYMI: FOX NEWS: MGP ripped for ‘phony’ working-class narrative

This morning Fox News EXPOSED Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03) for cosplaying as working-class and telling voters she had student loan debt.

She lied.

Read more below.

Luxury travel, shopping, six-figure income: Battleground Dems ripped for ‘phony’ working-class narrative
By Alec Schemmel
Fox News
August 20, 2026

Several battleground Democrats running in competitive House races have leaned on working-class, blue-collar biographies to connect with voters’ economic anxieties, but financial records and other materials reviewed by Fox News Digital complicate the images they have presented on the campaign trail.

Meanwhile, in Washington State, Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., has built part of her blue-collar image around her time working in an auto shop and her Reed College history, saying she worked three jobs and paid for the private liberal arts school “by the credit hour” after her parents stopped paying tuition. But financial disclosures reviewed by Fox News Digital did not list reportable student-loan debt, while critics familiar with her time at Reed College have questioned whether jobs Gluesenkamp Perez cited, including as a nanny, campus barista and at an “iPhone case factory,” could have plausibly covered the school’s cost.

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Additionally, some of Gluesenkamp Perez’s former Reed classmates have publicly questioned her account of paying for the private college through those jobs. On a Jan. 29 episode of the NOEXIST INC podcast titled “Absolutely Sweet Marie Gluesenkamp Perez,” former roommate Isaac Eger said the “iPhone case factory” was actually Grove, now Grovemade, a small Portland company that made bamboo iPhone cases by hand, and recalled that Gluesenkamp Perez did not begin working there until around 2010 or 2011, late in her time at Reed. He also noted the factory was closer to a small handmade bamboo case business that made its products by hand.

Read the full article here.

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