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| Leaked audio from Virginia lawmaker Abagail Spanberger says Democrats lost seats because the Squad became the distraction. |
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ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES!
While we await the results of the presidential election, we are expecting unrest.No one likes losing!
The Democrats are voicing frustration. They said how the fuck can they blow this election?
Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) didn’t mince any words!
She said that the trolls in the party distracted the message and cost us the election.
“If we are classifying Tuesday as a success from a congressional standpoint, we will get our asses torn apart in 2022,” Spanberger said. “That’s the reality.”
She said that many of the reasons Democrats found it “losing members who shouldn’t have lost” was due to perception.
“The number one concern in things that people brought to me in my [district] that I barely re-won, was defunding the police. And I’ve heard from my colleagues who have said, ‘Oh, it’s the language of the streets. We should respect that.’ We’re in Congress. We are professionals. We are supposed to talk about things in the way where we mean what we’re talking about. If we don’t mean we should defund the police, we shouldn’t say that.”
She said that Trump’s calls about Democrats embracing socialism cost Biden’s chance to win over Florida.
“We want to talk about funding social services, and ensuring good engagement in community policing, let’s talk about what we are for. And we need to not ever use the words ‘socialist’ or ‘socialism’ ever again. Because while people think it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter. And we lost good members because of it.”
Spanberger said that her race was a nail-biter and she felt that Trump’s impact on her district almost cost her the election.
Spanberger said the Squad are partly responsible for the loss. She said that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) should stop making themselves the news and focus on working on helping their constituents.
She is right. We have seen them in the news frequently and now public opinion of them is generally negative. They have great ideas and are telling the truth. But in the Midwest, South and Mountain West, it’s noise.
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| The Squad grew a few. |
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) have represented the leadership of the Democratic Party. Many in the party are now calling for them as well as Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) to step down from leadership. Pelosi who signalled she’ll run for House Speaker again might face an onslaught of opposition from moderates and even mainstream progressives. Schumer also may face opposition from Democrats because of the losses. The only two who managed to win are John Hickenlooper and Mark Kelly. Also we await the results of Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Cal Cunningham in North Carolina and Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and independent Al Gross. If Cunningham and Gross lose, then the only two left are Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) and Raphael Warnock as well as Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) and Jon Ossoff. They face a run-off election in January. The race leans Republican.
The Democrats are lost in the noise and thanks to the Squad and Sen. Bernie Sander (I-VT), the party could lose control of the House in 2022 due to redistricting and the Supreme Court’s decisions that could rollback progress.
Ocasio-Cortez fired back to say that we stayed the course and it’s not their fault.
What they have done - from @staceyabrams & @fairfightaction to @ConMijente and the whole underrecognized legion of organizers- is nothing short of remarkable. Give them their flowers 💐
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 6, 2020
How do you make it less effective? Invest in year-round deep canvassing. Data shows that this kind of work helps blunt the force of racial resentment at the polls.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 6, 2020
If you’re always running away from convos about race, then the only ppl owning it are GOP. You’ll lose.
There are folks running around on TV blaming progressivism for Dem underperformance.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 6, 2020
I was curious, so I decided to open the hood on struggling campaigns of candidates who are blaming progressives for their problems.
Almost all had awful execution on digital. DURING A PANDEMIC.
Underinvestment across the board. Some campaigns spent $0 on digital the week before the election. Others who spent did so in very poor ways.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 6, 2020
If I spent only $12k on TV the week before an election & then blamed others after, you’d ask questions. That’s how it looks seeing this.
Ideology + messaging are the spicy convos a lot of people jump to but sometimes it’s about execution and technical capacity.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 6, 2020
Digital execution was not good, polls were off, ironically DCCC banned the firms who are the best in the country at Facebook bc they work w progressives!
Also, the decision to stop knocking doors is one people need to grapple with and analyze.@IlhanMN and @RashidaTlaib never stopped and may very well have helped delivered a Biden Presidency bc of it https://t.co/5nweAADmIF
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 6, 2020
How do you make it less effective? Invest in year-round deep canvassing. Data shows that this kind of work helps blunt the force of racial resentment at the polls.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 6, 2020
If you’re always running away from convos about race, then the only ppl owning it are GOP. You’ll lose.
And on this hand-wringing about slight POC increases for GOP in some areas - this is also an area w answers.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 6, 2020
But honestly when it comes to Latinos the party’s just never seriously made an effort. Mexicans, Central Am, Caribbean, Chicanos - Cubans are not the only impt community
By the way if white communities are getting more comfortable w overt racism or “cultural resentment” (if that’s what they’re rebranding it now) it’s only gonna get harder for POC turnout to save everyone.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 6, 2020
Real organizing & strategy is needed that disarms bigotry, not avoids it.
You can’t just tell the Black, Brown, & youth organizers riding in to save us every election to be quiet or not have their reps champion them when they need us. Or wonder why they don’t show up for midterms when they’re scolded for existing. Esp when they’re delivering victories.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 6, 2020
And btw I’m happy to cede ground on things that aren’t working in some areas! But finger pointing is not gonna help. There’s real workable & productive paths here if the party is open to us.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) November 6, 2020
(After all, I got here by beating a Dem who outspent me 10-1 who I knew had bad polling)
The possibility of Joe Biden becoming the 46th President of the United States is likely as Pennsylvania, Georgia and Nevada show a slim lead for the former vice president. He and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) will likely make a victory speech in the evening.
President Donald J. Trump was roundly condemned for claiming the election is being stolen because of mail-in ballots being delivered in Philadelphia.
Trump’s unverified claims forced U.S. and world media to cut his presser.
Trump hasn’t made any public appearances since Thursday. He is preparing for a legal fight that may end up in the Supreme Court.
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