House Democratic leaders are defending a new policy that will exclude consultants who work for upstart challengers to Democratic incumbents from also receiving lucrative contracts from the party's campaign arm, a move liberals are criticizing as an effort to rein in the rising energy of the progressive left.
Criticized the DCCC. Ocasio-Cortez and Pressley are two of the 10 House Democrats who won their seats by beating sitting members of their own party.
"But at the end of the day, the reality is the DCCC has a singular mission, which is to protect and preserve the majority," said Jeffries, the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus.
Veterans of the DCCC say the policy is not really new.
"Keeping the House requires the DCCC to focus on shoring up incumbents and challenging Republicans in red and purple districts, not battling in blue districts," said one former top DCCC official, who asked for anonymity in order to describe internal debates.
Only two vendors who worked for Pressley - Alabama-based pollster Anzalone Liszt Grove Research and The Campaign Group, a Pennsylvania firm - also worked for the DCCC. But the policy is having an impact on the thinking of some candidates who are considering their own insurgent bids.
The DCCC policy says the committee will only work with vendors that are either partly owned by underrepresented groups or that have demonstrated "a sustained commitment to promoting diversity."
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/437048-liberals-infuriated-by-pro-incumbent-house-dem-policy
Criticized the DCCC. Ocasio-Cortez and Pressley are two of the 10 House Democrats who won their seats by beating sitting members of their own party.
"But at the end of the day, the reality is the DCCC has a singular mission, which is to protect and preserve the majority," said Jeffries, the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus.
Veterans of the DCCC say the policy is not really new.
"Keeping the House requires the DCCC to focus on shoring up incumbents and challenging Republicans in red and purple districts, not battling in blue districts," said one former top DCCC official, who asked for anonymity in order to describe internal debates.
Only two vendors who worked for Pressley - Alabama-based pollster Anzalone Liszt Grove Research and The Campaign Group, a Pennsylvania firm - also worked for the DCCC. But the policy is having an impact on the thinking of some candidates who are considering their own insurgent bids.
The DCCC policy says the committee will only work with vendors that are either partly owned by underrepresented groups or that have demonstrated "a sustained commitment to promoting diversity."
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/437048-liberals-infuriated-by-pro-incumbent-house-dem-policy
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