The DCCCs First Big Test of 2018 Blew Up in Its Face

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The DCCC’s First Big Test of 2018 Blew Up in Its Face

Tim Murphy
Mar. 7, 2018 12:11 AM


The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee waded into the seven-way primary for Texas’ seventh congressional district last month with a specific goal in mind: delivering a knockout blow to Laura Moser, a freelance writer and Resistance activist with a large national following, who it feared would crater the party’s chances in the closely watched swing district.

But the DCCC’s attacks on Moser 10 days before the primary—a broadside so clumsy and transparent it drew criticism from DNC chair Tom Perez and members of Congress—didn’t work as intended. Moser raised $87,000 in the days after the DCCC nuclear barrage and basked in the free publicity during the homestretch of the campaign. And on Tuesday, she secured a spot in the May 22nd runoff against Lizzie Fletcher, a Houston lawyer backed by EMILY’s List who led the field in the first round of voting.

Now Democrats in the seventh district, a longtime Republican stronghold that swung harder to Hillary Clinton than any other district in the country in 2016, will be faced with an unusual choice: a progressive candidate denounced by the official campaign organ of the House Democratic caucus, or a more moderate candidate rejected by the AFL-CIO.

The DCCC’s attacks on Moser steered clear of policy, instead focusing on the candidate’s residency (she only recently moved back to her hometown from DC) and something she once wrote about not wanting to live in rural East Texas (which is not part of the district). But with another two-and-a-half months to go, the differences between the two candidates will likely sharpen.

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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/texas-laura-moser-dccc/

[Wwcd]

1. Liberal or Conservative. That is who we will be voting for or against.

There really is no other but these two in the end.

Democrats, Progressives, progressive democrats, democratic progressive socialists, socialists, socialist progressives, socialist democrats....

Maybe its time to stop dividing the liberals into warring factions.
The Conservative Party Does Not Do This.
Perhaps that's why they appear to WIN.

We are liberal or conservative.


I don't think Moser's problem was Progressive against Democrats.
Every single thing I read regarding her, here in Texas was about how she addressed her hometown.
I heard no one saying not to support her because she was "Progressive" rather than a "Democrat".
NO ONE. The issue was her dissing her home town. It had nothing at all to do with her Party affiliation until someone made it about that to divide Liberal voters.