Katie Hill (CA-25) is the real star of the 2018 class

[riverine]

Katie Hill: can 'America's most millennial candidate' win?
The grassroots Hill has never held office, but her youth-oriented campaign typifies a new kind of poster child for the Democrats

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/22/millennial-candidate-midterms-katie-hill-25th-district

She won against a GOP incumbent - unlike some of her cohorts who had easy wins.

[Cha]

1. KICK for Katie Hill!

Mahalo, riverine

[samnsara]

2. i like her a lot too.. and another new-er face im loving is Max Rose..

.... he's kinda Obama-esque

[HopeAgain]

3. I'm sure

the centrists love her.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. An advocate for the homeless who fosters rescue animals.

Doesn't sound very centristy.

[Cha]

9. I bet most all of us love her for helping

the Democratic party to achieve The BlueWave in 2018.

We wouldn't have a Democratic Victory in the House now without all kinds of Dems across the Country.

But, you have to label her a "centrist".. divisive much?

[HopeAgain]

28. The "real star" moniker by OP is devisive

and you know it. Sure she's a star, but we all know why the word "real" was used.

[Cha]

30. Oh, that's why you had to get your little dig in.

[HopeAgain]

31. A dig for a dig...

[Cha]

33. Uh huh.. Katie Hill is a real star and so

are all of our Dems who swept in the BlueWave 2018.

[HopeAgain]

35. Woulda been a better way to phrase the OP

no?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

38. Maybe if she won a district Hillary Clinton won by 55 points her win would be noteworthy.

[George II]

41. No it isn't. I think it was worded perfectly, and it's being proven day after day.

Thankfully most of the 40 new members of Congress that we elected in November are quietly going about doing the work that they were elected to do.

[BannonsLiver]

12. So what?

Is that supposed to be some kind of clever dig?

Try harder.

[HopeAgain]

27. No more than saying

she is the "real" star, who do you suppose is the fake one?

[BannonsLiver]

44. Again, so what?

Of course to some a centrist is anyone even slightly to the right of Bernie or AOC , so it’s essentially been made meaningless by those who have the most contempt for centrists. By the way, we need centrist voters to win elections. That’s a harsh reality for you, I know.

[GulfCoast66]

16. Centrist won us the House.

The freshmen favorites on DU were mainly from safe Democratic districts.

We only won the house because we won centrist districts with centrist candidates. It was our path to victory in 18. And our best path in 2020.

America by belief is a center left nation.

[George II]

24. I'm sure of that too - remember, "centrists" represent about 60% of our party.

[HopeAgain]

29. And more progressives are

the future, unless we want to go back to 2016.

[Cha]

32. Not necessarily.. The "Centrists" as you label them

won the Blue Wave 2018 midterms.. without which we wouldn't have a Democratic House Victory.

I'm grateful for all our Dems.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

37. Absolutely grateful for all of them

We need all of the variations to win. And not just to win, but because it’s good for our party and for our country to include all reasonable Democratic ideas in our debates, in order to move forward and benefit the country.

[George II]

40. "Centrists", as many like to put it, are responsible for the "Blue Wave" of November 2018....

....Look at all the new members of Congress. On what do you base the statement "progressives are the future"?

I don't understand why people continually like to beat on the majority of the Democratic Party.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. She's a comer. She's in the district next to mine. She beat an incumbent in a swing district.

She was an advocate for the homeless and lives on a farm where they foster rescue animals.

[riverine]

6. Vice News covered her campaign weekly.

She won a tough primary and then worked her ass off door to door in 25.

It was retail politics at its BEST.

Katie Hill will be California Senator by 2026.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. If Kamala Harris becomes president she might become senator sooner.

[blm]

7. She and Ayanna Pressley have definitely made an impression on me

I’m really impressed with a number of freshmen already. And you know.....I ain’t easy. 😉

[rufus dog]

8. Katie Porter, flipped a seat also

Another impressive first timer from SoCal

[David__77]

18. And Josh Harder in the north too. So pleased about their victories!

...

[brush]

11. And she hasn't been attacking other Dems. What a concept.

She was very impressive in the Cohen hearings also.

[mcar]

13. She has been impressive

Lucy McBath too.

[R B Garr]

14. Totally agree! She is the true star. Beat a GOPer

in Orange County. She has gravitas and people listen to what she says. Like someone else said, she doesn’t attack other Democrats. She has it all.

Beating a Republican makes you the real deal.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. Ventura County and a small part of Los Angeles County,

[R B Garr]

26. Oh yeah, it was Katie Porter in the OC,

but agreed about Katie Hill’s star power in this thread. Looking forward to seeing more of both Katie’s.

[David__77]

17. I don't see why she should be pitted against other Democrats.

There’s diversity in the caucus. I’m glad she was elected. I hope my state gets rid of more Republicans next year.

[George II]

23. Who is pitting her against other Democrats? I don't see that at all.

[David__77]

25. Ok

...

[BannonsLiver]

45. Too bad nobody told Omar that before she attacked President Obama

[tonedevil]

19. Katie Hill...

does seem exciting I hope she's not so petty as to take cheap shots at the elections of her fellow Congresspeople.

[BannonsLiver]

46. Or pot shots at beloved former Democratic presidents.

[tonedevil]

47. OK / nt

[BannonsLiver]

48. Sorry to offend by defending President Obama but a lot of us aren't okay with the attacks.

[tonedevil]

49. OK / nt

[Brother Buzz]

20. Unlike some of her cohorts who had easy wins?

All eight freshmen congresspersons from California flipped seats from red to blue. All eight!

This Californian is proud of all of them.

[Awsi Dooger]

21. Katie Hill contacted me more than Andrew Gillum and Bill Nelson combined

I'm in Miami and never heard from Gillum or Nelson by phone or email or door to door or anything. That's how sad our coordination and effort is in Florida.

But somehow Katie Hill got hold of my particulars and put me on the email list. I heard from her every day and often more than once per day. Consequently I was familiar with her long before she ever got elected and have enjoyed watching her during questioning.

Star indeed

[JI7]

36. yet people always complain about being contacted repeatedly

by campaigns around election time.

i guess it works more than not.

[George II]

22. She has been unbelievable in these two short months. She started by reaching out...

...to Ayanna Pressley by offering her an earlier lottery number so that Pressley could get the office occupied by her childhood hero, Shirley Chisolm.

She is one impressive woman and "freshman", she'll go far.

[Cha]

34. Good to know.. Mahalo, George!

[George II]

42. Here's the story about Hill, Pressley, and Shirley Chisolm's office.

https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/an-office-swap-lands-ayanna-pressley-in-shirley-chisholms-former-spot

[Cha]

43. Thank YOu!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

39. She's a workhorse not a show horse.