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Ongoing Dem Debacle Thread: Commander will kill us all



Some Democrats have scrambled to portray Maloney’s face plant in New York as an act of self-sacrifice, framing him as a politician who gave up his own race to help Democrats elsewhere. Maloney has said that others, including Kathy Hochul and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, should share the blame for his downfall. But in interviews, local liberal and conservative political strategists describe a candidate who alienated Democratic grassroots groups and made no effort to court their help, even after he chose to run in a district, New York’s 17th, where he had built up little goodwill and spent precious little time. “Instead of working with NY-17’s strong Indivisible network and other grassroots groups to build a ground game, Maloney ignored and antagonized the local base,” said Dani Negrete, national political director of Indivisible, a nationwide grassroots group with thousands of local affiliates.

In the weeks before Election Day, Maloney set off on a Europe trip, where he hung out on a balcony overlooking the Seine, and turned up in London, Paris, and Geneva, often alongside congressman Adam Schiff, for gatherings billed as DCCC fundraising events. (The DCCC said in a statement that its total efforts in Europe, of which Maloney’s trip was part, raised $1 million.)
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Across the major Democratic outside spending committees, Maloney sopped up more than $4 million in support, all of it coming at a time when the DCCC he chairs—as well as Pelosi’s House Majority PAC—was crying poor and cutting funding in extremely winnable races. He had pledged in August not to spend party resources on his own race. Just a few months later, he was siphoning critical dollars that could have gone to other contests, including Oregon’s 5th, where the DCCC and House Majority PAC both cut bait on Jamie McLeod-Skinner, a Democrat who, on Sunday, narrowly lost to her Republican opponent.
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yikes indeed
 
Said it before and I’ll say it again, fuck Maloney. He represents the absolute worst qualities of establishment Democratic Party entitlement, and i’m glad he fucking lost.
 
Maloney’s primary was a harbinger of his coming troubles. To beat Biaggi, a progressive, he accepted nearly half a million dollars in support from the Police Benevolent Association, the New York City police union, which put that money toward vicious attack ads that denounced the state senator as “a radical anti-police extremist” who “voted to release criminals without bail.” In the general, Lawler attacked Maloney using a similar tactic, portraying him as soft on crime.
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PBA endorsed Maloney's opponent in the general.
 

A CONTROVERSIAL DECISION IN OREGON COULD COST DEMOCRATS THE HOUSE​




While the DCCC made an investment of just under $2 million dollars in the race, they came off the air in the final few weeks, and the leadership-aligned super political action committee, House Majority PAC, made the eyebrow-raising move to triage the race altogether. House Majority PAC communications director CJ Warnke declined to explain the reasoning behind the move at the time, but told The Intercept Friday that House Majority PAC “had to make strategic decisions across the country to build the most optimal path to Democratic success this cycle.”


“Our investments,” he continued, “made a major difference across the country and in Oregon, where we spent nearly $4 million for Congresswoman-elect Val Hoyle in OR-04 and State Rep. Andrea Salinas in OR-06 — who both faced an unprecedented amount of Republican spending this year.”

Of course, the fiasco in the neighboring 6th Congressional District also has House Majority PAC’s fingerprints all over it. There, progressive state representative Andrea Salinas entered the general election bruised from the most expensive primary contest in the nation after former cryptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried and House Majority PAC teamed up in an over $10 million failed attempt to anoint political newcomer and effective altruist Carrick Flynn as the nominee. The unorthodox partnership appeared to be the result of a quid pro quo, as Bankman-Fried contemporaneously donated $6 million to the committee. House Majority PAC spent $1 million on Flynn and ended up spending over $3.25 million of the remainder helping Salinas win the general election in a seat that was considered safe earlier in the cycle. The DCCC also spent $1.75 million boosting Salinas. (Bankman-Fried was worth billions of dollars at the time; as of now, he appears broke.)
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Some races in California, where key elections hang in the balance, also saw Democrats outspent. In two particularly glaring examples, the party’s national committees invested a measly $23,000 in Christy Smith and an underwhelming $204,000 in Jay Chen: two Democratic nominees who challenged Republican incumbents in Democratic-leaning districts.

Smith said she has a “very narrow” path remaining, as ballots continued to be counted, but had no kind words for Washington Democrats. “They did more than give up on me,” she said, noting that the DCCC recruited a candidate to run against her in the primary, despite her having lost in 2020 by fewer than 350 votes. With the party machinery behind John Quaye Quartey, Smith’s fundraising capacity was suppressed, and she blew through her million dollars to win the primary, entering the general broke. The national party’s preferred candidate won just 4,037 votes in the primary. “That was also a waste of the $1 million in donor money he raised to get a single digit result. Two million dollars in Dem donor money wasted on a primary that they created,” Smith said. After that, the party walked away from the race.
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Obviously, it's impossible to perfectly predict the competitiveness of all 435 races, but it would at least be nice if national Dems didn't self-sabotage before the general election.
 
how many "WEIRD DECISION BY DEMOCRATS IN [THIS LOCATION] MIGHT COST THEM THE HOUSE" articles are out there?
 
The DCCC is a bunch of habitual dicksteppers.
 
PhDeac said:
The DCCC is a bunch of habitual dicksteppers.
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Petty, entitled, resentful assholes who insist upon policing the ideologies and activism of the individual candidates in house races from a national perspective. The DCCC schemes and devises to prevent progressive/activist candidates from running, and when those progressives occasionally win their primaries, the DCCC freezes them out and neglects those races, and then when the candidates lose it’s “see! Progressives can’t win!”.
 
Cheaper to buy TV time in SC than in GA.

No big metropolitan area where all the people are concentrated. "Retail politics" could be done.
 
So what? “Retail politics” works for some primaries but not for the general. So why hold on to it? Is it that much more expensive to run ads in the Triad, Triangle, and Mecklenburg than to drive a campaign bus back and forth from upstate to the low country?

Democrats need to run up margins in metro areas and SC does not help do that. The best strategy for SC would be to convince Democrats in Rock Hill to move to Matthews.
 
Apparently GA Board of Elections won’t do 2 primaries, and pubs won’t agree to move their primary up to 1st.
 
Of course GA just did two statewide two party elections so they’re full of shit.

Red states aren’t going to play ball with this plan. All the more reason to see what Roy Cooper and Evers can pull in NC and WI and plan around Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania.
 
deactherunner said:
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So our congressman died, and Morrisey (the guy Northam pardoned) is one of the candidates to replace him. Just voted for the other lady in something called a firehouse primary, which has many more steps (had to sign a loyalty pledge, at which point I was handed a ticket which I exchanged for a ballot) than any other voting process that I have been a part of.

RIP McEachin and all, but did he really have to run when his health was failing? I don't think Morrissey's favored, but this firehouse primary is probably a smaller sample size than a normal one, so who knows what could happen?
 
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