Republicans held onto Mick Mulvaney's SC congressional seat in Tuesday's special election, but the 3-point margin was hardly what they may have been presuming, given Mulvaney's 20-point victory in November.
The California Democrat has always been a boogeywoman Republicans have used to motivate their base and to woo independents as the personification of liberal values and a reminder of why even if they may like their individual member or candidate, a vote for that Democrat would be a step toward putting Pelosi back in the speaker's chair. Democrats will need to pick up 24 House seats to take back the majority.
"Ossoff's problem is that he didn't win the first round", Brian Fallon, senior adviser to Priorities USA, a Democratic super PAC, said in an interview.
Pelosi, indeed, has raised more than $560 million for House Democrats since she became leader in 2003, the most by any politician in history, apart from presidential races. "We are going to be electing Democrats right here in Texas". "But I think I'm worth the trouble, quite frankly". They also lost in Manhattan, Hollywood and Marin County, Calif., where all the donor money they blew on Ossoff came from.
In the aftermath of the 2016 election, several progressive Democratic groups formed to support millennial-aged candidates running for public offices across the country.
If Pelosi is truly the "strategic, politically astute leader" she touts herself to be, she would know 2016 was a change election and voters in both parties continue to want real change.
It was laughable to watch the Party of Losers come up with reasons for why they never had a chance in Georgia, or say that the margin of victory was an encouraging sign of future Republican weakness.
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And Rice backed Pelosi in last year's leadership fight. She told reporters on Friday that she is confident that she retains support among her fellow Democrats.
Moulton is one of the House Democrats who has been most vocal in calling for a new generation of leadership. As it stands, many members of the Democratic caucus still see Pelosi as their defacto leader and until a suitable challenger arises, she'll remain just that. She's also credited for many legislative successes on Capitol Hill.
Ossoff's defeat has Democrats scratching their heads and searching for more answers, particularly because they spent tens of millions of dollars on the losing effort.
These 14 seats - plus the four more that Trump carried by less than 5 percent - are obvious Democratic targets, and the result in Georgia suggests that Democrats could be competitive in many of them.
"There are many more people today, even from November, who are much more vocal, who have approached us and said, 'I'm done". Her spot in the Congress, won via a special election victory now so elusive to her party, owes less to her own family than to the Burton family, a sort of Bay Area Borgia Brothers, who effectively legated her a seat in the House when Phil's widow Sala passed away. "(Tom) Daschle was a target, Tip O'Neill was a target", Pelosi said.
Some are insisting that Democrats must draw brighter contrasts with Republicans if they plan to regain control of the House in the 2018 midterm elections.
Ryan was asked on CNN whether Pelosi is more toxic in today's discourse than President Donald Trump is. What beyond denunciations of the Republicans as heartless will the Democrats have to say to voters?
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