Who is that in the photo? The only people mentioned in the article are Ro Khanna, AOC, Omar, and Tlaib. It’s not any of them. Is it the unnamed spokesperson from the DCCC?
Geez, you would think TPM could figure out how to caption its photographs!
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I figured out from the DCCC Wikipedia article that the photo is of Cheri Bustos (D-Illinois), the head of the DCCC.
She isn’t even mentioned in the TPM article.
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You want me to elaborate the Democratic Party’s stated agenda?
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She is wrong. She ran Chardo Richardson against Democratic Congressman Stephanie Murphy 7th CD in Florida. She beat 24 year incumbent John Mica in a dead even district in 2016. In 2018, AOC runs her Justice Democrat Chardo Richardson against Murphy in the primary. Fortunately he lost by 72%. Had he won, he had all of $4,100 to run against the GOP in the general election.
The GOP opponent had raised a million dollars but they threw cried uncle when Murphy trounced Richardson in the primary. She wins a tossup district. The 7th CD was GOP for 28 years. Murphy has carried as a Democrat the last two terms. AOC has a D+29% CD. She does not know anything about how tough it for Democrats in swing district. She and Bernie did not flip a single CD in 2018…
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This is bullshit! Had these restrictions been in place for 2018, I have little doubt the Dems wouldn’t have won so many seats.
By the way, DCCC didn’t financially support many of the most progressive candidates in the 18’ cycle and they’re the most refreshing voices to enter Congress in my lifetime.
It’s so quaint the Reeps claim Pelosi and Schumer are liberals. They’re not, instead they’re for maintaining the status quo and corporate donors.
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Apparently the DCCC is made up of Democrats who think that compromise with Republicans is okay, but compromise with more progressive Democrats is bad. I think I see the problem here.
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You brought it up. I thought you could just rattle it off.
OTOH, there may be a stated agenda, but there is definitely no agreement about it.
Nor is there agreement about how the system should work.
Some people insist on less money in politics, while republicans rake it in and use it to affect turnout and results.
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Nice job DCCC. Then voters go missing on election day, and you have to bitch about how voters are racists, misogynists, deplorable, blah blah blah.
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Of course, there’s a stated agenda. There’s always one.
The issue is how do any of those admirable goals get passed in Congress? With a republican-controlled Senate?
Laughable.
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Exactly!
So now we’ve established what I was talking about: The DCCC’s obligation to advance the Democratic Party’s stated agenda – as opposed to protecting incumbents during the primary process.
Not sure what your point is here.
Is it that the Republicans are poopyheads? I agree wholeheartedly.
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I’m not at all worried about democrats, cervantes. That’s where where you and I disagree.
Even AOC replaced a perfectly acceptable democrat.
We need to beat republicans, whenever and wherever we can. That will involve electing people some don’t think are “good” enough.
Have a nice evening.
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The TPM article is not about whether you should worry about Democrats.
It’s about what Democrats are doing to each other.
Sleep well.
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Democrats or Bernie supporters?
Or should I say “supporters”?
I’ve gotten really good at turning off the outrage about any candidate running. Anyone doing that has an agenda, to be sure.
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Terrible, awful, horrible idea. Seriously toying with the idea of ending my monthly automatic payment to DCCC and just focusing on select candidates. Particularly as the DCCC seems to have no clue about national messaging. The only thing they’ve done right is wisely stay out of the picture in the 2018 elections and let grassroots take over–which as a consequence was a blue wave.
To be clear: we need to overhaul our ranks and tap the energy of our grassroots. The upper echelons of the Democratic party are timid, serial losers. If you let the grassroots make the big calls, they will nominate nuanced candidates whose shade of blue will fit the district in question and whose talents are visible to the local electorate. We saw that in 2018, which produced a fantastic crop of winners. We cannot have top-down, tone-deaf management of the party.
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That staffer argued it would unfairly treat different incumbents differently, and claimed the new rule would do as much to help someone facing a challenge from the right as from the left.
Name one Democrat who is facing a stiff challenge from the right.
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Incumbents have at least shown they can win in a particular district. I’m not interested in either spending a lot of resources contesting seats we already hold nor in running a bunch of purity.candidates who lose. The difference between the Gop and the Dems is so much greater than differences among dems and out hold on the House so tenuous that candidates who can take the primary.but who would losrbthe general should not be encouraged to run. The primary usefulness of the DCCC is properly the protection of our control of the House.
Check your data. It was the wins by moderates on the swibpng districts which gave us the House. Thisebrefreshing candidates who won in safe districts found have accomplished nothing without this.
You may recall that 2018 was swing election. Democrats flipped Republican incumbents. By definition they were the victors in primaries. It was new faces that won in rural PA, KS, VA, upstate NY, rural CA. The AOC primary victory was anomalous–and now she’s a Democratic nuclear weapon.
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Not sure you noticed, but every individual named in the TPM article is a Democrat …
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