Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Lauren Wright, a political scientist at Princeton University, join “On Balance” to discuss the fallout for both political parties after Abdul El-Sayed's victory in Michigan. #democrats #GOP #midterms "On Balance with Leland Vittert" takes a critical look at some of the day's hottest subjects.
At a national summit of the Democratic Socialists of America, nervous energy and a sprawling tableau of sometimes-competing interests were on display.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is now publicly calling out members of her own party for shielding Joe Biden from primary challengers in 2024, and then pretending they wanted him gone all along. The New York progressive used a Thursday appearance on "The Majority Report" podcast to level a pointed charge at Democratic leadership: the same insiders […] The post Ocasio-Cortez accuses fellow Democrats of blocking a real 2024 primary, then scrambling to rewrite history appeared first on American Almanac .
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is now publicly calling out members of her own party for shielding Joe Biden from primary challengers in 2024, and then pretending they wanted him gone all along. The New York progressive used a Thursday appearance on "The Majority Report" podcast to level a pointed charge at Democratic leadership: the same insiders who locked arms around Biden before a single primary vote were cast are now jockeying to claim they saw the problem early. Ocasio-Cortez named no names, but her description of a "consultant class" racing to distance itself from Biden's failed candidacy left little doubt about who she meant. Her comments land two years after Democrats lost the White House and amid an ongoing internal reckoning…Open
Bernie Sanders appeared on Face the Nation this past Sunday and vehemently pushed back against a Wall Street Journal opinion piece published days earlier by Rahm Emanuel. The former Obama White House chief of staff had warned that “Bernie Bros” and Democratic Socialists of America candidates could damage the party’s chances in the midterms. Emanuel […] The post The DSA Surge: Why Progressives Are Poisoning the Democrats’ Midterm Chances appeared first on StoneZone .
Bernie Sanders appeared on Face the Nation this past Sunday and vehemently pushed back against a Wall Street Journal opinion piece published days earlier by Rahm Emanuel. The former Obama White House chief of staff had warned that “Bernie Bros” and Democratic Socialists of America candidates could damage the party’s chances in the midterms. Emanuel argued that DSA-backed nominees in deep-blue districts force moderate Democrats in competitive races to answer for unpopular positions. “In the name of ‘authenticity,’ the DSA and others are burdening the Democratic Party with nominees whose wildly unpopular positions will protect Republicans from having to pay the price of Donald Trump’s corruption and economic incompetence,”…Open
The progressive wave seems to have moderate and centrist Democrats worried for the party’s future.
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Pence doesn’t like “populism,” and prefers we return to the “traditional conservatism” of the Establishment.