‘So dirty and rotten’: Candidate for NJ governor’s fundraising tactic confuses some donors
Margaret McLendon, a retiree from Georgia, didn’t recall ever listening to the identify Invoice Spadea, a Republican candidate for governor in New Jersey. So McLendon, 85, was stunned to be taught from a reporter that she donated six occasions to Spadea’s marketing campaign since October, for a complete of $590. ”I don’t perceive it,” McLendon, who’s had a protracted profession in Georgia’s Division of Household & Kids Companies, mentioned in…
Nancy Pelosi faces primary challenge from former AOC aide
One other chapter in a generational battle over the way forward for the Democratic Social gathering seems to be taking form in San Francisco in a combat for the seat now held by former Home speaker Nancy Pelosi. Saikat Chakrabarti, a former chief of employees for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, introduced Wednesday that he would problem Pelosi within the major, citing the previous speaker’s efforts to stop the progressive New York…
California’s AG won’t run to succeed Newsom
California Lawyer Common Rob Bonta received’t run for governor, ending months of hypothesis about him eyeing the crowded 2026 contest. As a substitute, the Democrat will search reelection as legal professional basic and again former Vice President Kamala Harris if she jumps into the fray to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom after his remaining time period ends. Aides say Harris is weighing her choices after returning dwelling to Los Angeles. “Kamala…
Ken Martin and Kamala Harris were winners Saturday. Billionaires and the old guard took a hit.
High Democratic elected officers and billionaire donors discovered they don’t have a lot pull on the Democratic Nationwide Committee, the place occasion insiders on Saturday selected a gradual hand — Ken Martin — over their most well-liked alternative for chair. Neither Martin nor the choose of a lot of the institution, Ben Wikler of Wisconsin, had been promising a significant overhaul of the occasion. And in choosing Martin, Democrats did…
‘Minnesota nice has two sides’: Why some Dems see a ruthless leader in Ken Martin
For 2 months as he campaigned for Democratic Nationwide Committee chair, Ken Martin labored methodically by means of a name sheet of the committee’s 448 members, generally on the cellphone for so long as an hour, even two hours, at a time, usually till 10 p.m. It was the form of exhaustive, behind-the-scenes operative work Martin knew finest from his time main Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Occasion and the Affiliation of State…
Dems set to pick new DNC chair after low-key campaign
Democrats on Saturday will decide their first new chief within the second Donald Trump period. However a scarcity of huge names or any substantive conflict of concepts suggests a celebration with little instant inclination for an overhaul. Members of the Democratic Nationwide Committee are gathering in Maryland and the assembly will culminate Saturday with a vote for chair, the place two clear frontrunners have emerged: Ken Martin, who leads Minnesota’s…
Ex-Sanders staffers start new consulting firm with an eye to 2028
A pair of former Bernie Sanders advisers who plan to work on the 2028 presidential election are opening a brand new Democratic consulting agency. Mark Longabaugh, a prime strategist for Sanders’ 2016 marketing campaign for the White Home, and Joe Caiazzo, a senior state aide for each of Sanders’ presidential bids, are calling their new firm 1788 Media. It will likely be based mostly in Washington, D.C. The launch, first…
Two Trump-backed Republicans look to strengthen House GOP majority in Florida primary
TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Two Florida Republicans are poised to assist the GOP strengthen its razor-thin majority this spring within the U.S. Home. Republican voters in a number of Florida counties head to the polls on Tuesday, the place they are going to choose GOP nominees to fill seats that had been held by former Reps. Michael Waltz and Matt Gaetz. The first victors will probably be thought of heavy favorites…
Former Sanders, Fetterman campaign consultants start new firm aimed at winning back working-class voters
A bunch of Democratic strategists who labored for among the largest unorthodox names in liberal politics is launching a brand new agency. The consultants who helped information Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential marketing campaign and the successful Senate bids for John Fetterman and Ruben Gallego are branding their new firm Battle Company. They stated they’re aiming to elect extra nontraditional candidates with a populist, anti-establishment streak. They’re even open to fielding…
Facing a Trump-y House battleground, Dems need to ‘quit talking to ourselves and start listening to people’
Democrats are solely three seats away from taking again management of the Home subsequent yr. However they face a serious problem: Their path runs nearly solely by way of districts that Donald Trump received in November. 13 Home Democrats now symbolize seats Trump received, whereas solely three GOP incumbents sit in districts received by former Vice President Kamala Harris. That’s in sharp distinction to the primary time Trump received the…
