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In reply to the discussion: New head of Our Revolution Nina Turner on Unity with DEMS!! [View all]Trial_By_Fire
(624 posts)CM: How will Our Revolution relate to the DNC, the DCCC, the DSCC, that kind of establishment that so many activists and politicians, including you, have frequently criticized?
NT: I dont think it is our job nor our obligation to fit in. Its their job to fit in with us. But the overwhelming majority of registered voters in this country, I think its 53 percent or maybe 54 percent, identify as independent. Now, we know independents lean one way or the other but they identify as independent so that means that both political parties need to do some soul searching. Im certainly willing to sit across the table with almost anybody if we gonna work towards the collective good, but it is not Our Revolutions job to fit in with them.
CM: And how will Our Revolution relate to progressives within government who didnt back Bernie, like Sherrod Brown and Tammy Baldwin, if they go on to seek reelection?
NT: If they want Our Revolutions endorsement they will seek it like everybody else and so they gotta start with the local affiliates, and if the local affiliates say that this is the person that we want to back, then there it is. There it is.