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…
O'Malley demands opponents release donor lists in DNC chair race
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley is releasing the names of his donors to his Democratic Nationwide Committee marketing campaign — an effort to stress his opponents to disclose their very own monetary backers forward of the Feb. 1 election. O’Malley's list, shared first with POLITICO, exhibits greater than 350 individuals who had donated to his marketing campaign, totaling about $350,000, and his spokesperson known as on the opposite DNC chair…
Nancy Mace eyeing run for South Carolina governor
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) publicly acknowledged that she’s eyeing a 2026 gubernatorial run — probably establishing the firebrand member of Congress for an additional statewide run. Mace has lengthy been rumored to be contemplating a bid, with Gov. Henry McMaster termed-out in 2026. However Mace made her plans public this week, telling the Associated Press she is “severely contemplating” coming into the governor’s race subsequent yr. Mace, who's serving her…
Trump takes a Washington victory lap a day before he’s sworn in
Eight years in the past, Donald Trump arrived in Washington to a metropolis nonetheless surprised by his victory. This time round, he turned the capital right into a MAGA fest. Contained in the Capital One Area on Sunday, amid Trump inauguration beanies, purple white and blue scarves, and white and gold Trump 2024 cowboy hats, the president-elect entered like a conqueror, coming onto the stage by descending a set of…
Ken Martin gets another endorsement in DNC race as James Skoufis drops out
New York state Sen. James Skoufis is dropping out of the Democratic Nationwide Committee chair’s race — and has endorsed Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Occasion Chair Ken Martin. In a press release shared first with POLITICO, Skoufis, a longshot contender who pitched himself as a celebration outsider, stated Martin “will re-center what's most necessary for our get together: increasing the map and rebuilding our once-big Democratic tent by taking energy exterior of…
Hochul raises $10M for her campaign and the state party
ALBANY, New York – Gov. Kathy Hochul will report Wednesday having raised $3.3 million for her reelection throughout the second half of 2024. The New York governor — who has struggled with low approval scores — raised one other $6.7 million for the state Democratic Committee throughout that point, her marketing campaign aide stated. Hochul has repeatedly set fundraising information throughout her time in workplace, however this isn't considered one…
Cuomo dominates a mayoral field he hasn’t yet entered, third-party poll finds
NEW YORK — Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo trounces Mayor Eric Adams and different candidates in a Democratic mayoral area Cuomo has not but entered — however his negatives are among the many highest of the contenders, a third-party ballot discovered. The well-known Cuomo topped the candidates with 32 % when probably Democratic voters have been requested to decide on a favourite candidate in what might be a ranked-choice election. Following…
Eric Adams brushes off poll of Cuomo leading: ‘We don’t say Mayor Yang’
NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams downplayed a third-party ballot that confirmed him trailing within the mayoral race and took a dig at former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who topped the sector. “Polls don’t make mayors. Folks do,” Adams mentioned at an unrelated press convention Monday. He held up a printout of a Feb. 10, 2021 story from British information website The Unbiased titled ‘Andrew Yang opens up large lead in…
Abrams endorses Wikler in DNC race
Wisconsin state social gathering chair Ben Wikler scooped up a key endorsement as he seeks to move the Democratic Nationwide Committee. Stacey Abrams, the two-time Democratic gubernatorial nominee in Georgia and a number one voice within the social gathering’s push to fight what it sees as rising voting suppression efforts, introduced Monday that she is backing Wikler for DNC chair. In a press release to POLITICO, Abrams praised Wikler as…
