- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez publicly pushed back criticism from the Centre’s House Democrats, who blamed the election damage on left-wing policy and rhetoric.
- Virginia Democrat, who faced a competitive re-election race, Abigail Spenberger argued during a caucus call on Thursday that the party needed to abandon democratic socialism and called for “defamation” of the police.
- Ocasio-Cortez blamed election failures this year as part of the digital campaign and said it was a belief that the swing seat Democrats could not win over progressive policy.
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House Democrats were expected to increase their majority this week when Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was given power in the White House. Instead, they lost at least half a dozen seats.
The Washington Post reports that during the controversial call Thursday, many Centrist House members targeted the party’s left, weakening their appeal during Thursday’s controversial call through progressive policies and rhetoric, especially in suburban districts.
Democrat of Virginia, rep. Abigail Spenberger, who again faced a difficult election, and others raised the issue of democratic socialism and vowed to discredit the police.
“We never need to use the word ‘socialist’ or ‘socialism’ … because of that we lost good members,” Spenberg said in a call. “If we’re classifying Tuesday as a success … we’re going to erupt in 2022.”
On Friday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez publicly pushed for what she called “finger-pointing” in a series of tweets on Friday.
The Bronx native argued that it was a “myth” that Democrats could not win swing seats when running on progressive policies and blamed this year’s election failures as part of the digital campaign. Many democratic campaigns knocked on the door during the epidemic, which he said had hurt voters ’voting efforts.
Occio-Cortez Tweeted Those “almost all” Democrats who struggled this week or lost their elections were “terribly executed on digital. During an epidemic.”
The innovative legislator also aimed to blacklist the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee – House Campaign Hand – political vendors who worked on primary campaigns against sitting Democrats. Ocasio-Cortez and other progressives have raised the issue with this DCCCC rule in the past, blaming the group for protecting conservative Democrats in a safe blue district.
Axio-Cortez, who defeated well-funded primary and general election opponents, argued that moving away from progressive activists was tantamount to ignoring the support of young voters and the Democratic Party’s black and brown voters.
He wrote, “You can tell black, brown and young organizers to just save every election to stay quiet or not to keep their representative champion when they need it.” “Or wonder why they don’t show moderation when they criticize the current issue. Esp when they win.”
But even some members of the House Progressive Caucus, of which Ocasio-Cortez is a member, have agreed with their centralist colleagues that labels like “Socialist” are hurting the party’s appeal in many parts of the country.
“I think Republicans are trying to intimidate people on this ‘socialist narrative,'” California Democrat Rep. Jared Huffman told The Post. “These labels distract us and unfortunately divide us … What does it mean to accept such a sentence? All you have to do is say that. “
