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BumRushDaShow

(146,894 posts)
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 03:22 PM Jan 14

Progressives plan wave of Democratic primary challenges ahead of 2026 midterm elections

Source: Salon

Published January 14, 2025 5:45AM (EST)


As a power struggle engulfs the Democratic Party, a leading progressive organization, the Justice Democrats, announced a new candidate recruitment campaign targeting both open seats and incumbents and deep-blue congressional districts.

In a statement Tuesday, Alexander Rojas, the group's executive director, said that the organization is launching a campaign to recruit working-class Americans to run for office.

“To be the party of the working class, we need more working class leaders in power," he said. “Leaders like the elected Justice Democrats in Congress have shown us another way of doing politics is possible and represent the promise of uniting our fractured nation into a multiracial democracy where everyone thrives and no one is left behind."

The Justice Democrats launched during President-elect Donald Trump’s first term in 2017 and initially garnered attention for helping to elect members of the “Squad,” like Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., in the 2018 midterms. Indeed, the group emerged as an antagonist of entrenched centrist Democratic leadership by primarying members like former Rep. Joe Crowley, the then-chair of the House Democratic Caucus, in the Bronx district now represented by Ocasio-Cortez.

Read more: https://www.salon.com/2025/01/14/progressives-plan-wave-of-democratic-primary-challenges-ahead-of-2026-midterm/

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Mister Ed

(6,443 posts)
2. Good. Let's have some good, clean, positive contests, and may the best candidates win.
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 03:31 PM
Jan 14

Let no one sully their primary opponents and dim their prospects for the general.

Oopsie Daisy

(5,186 posts)
6. Challenging incumbent Democrats in primaries may not yield the intended results. This approach risks depleting resources
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 03:55 PM
Jan 14

Challenging incumbent Democrats in primaries may not yield the intended results. This approach risks depleting resources from our own party members, potentially enabling the GOP to secure victories through superior funding. Rather than undermining our own candidates, it would be more strategic for these 'progressives' to focus their efforts on contesting and diminishing the strength of GOP contenders.

betsuni

(27,432 posts)
13. Looking forward to all the conspiracy theories about Teh Establishment Centrist Elite Status Quo somehow rigging
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 12:51 AM
Jan 15

primaries (how, they don't say, mumble things about money and AIPAC), repeating over and over and over that the Democratic Party ignores (hates!) the working class working class working class working class working class. Establishment vs Working Class. Who is the enemy? Democrats! The Justice Democrats goal is not to work with Democrats (because enemies not allies) but replace them with ... wait for it ... condescending stereotype of a revolutionary WORKING CLASS (remember, all Democrats are wealthy upper class highly educated elites born in big cities who are incapable of understanding inequality).

Didn't work before, either.

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