House Majority Whip Jim Kluburn is not happy about his Democratic Caucus dominating the statement about his party, “H xios HN HBO.” Saying that sentences like “defaming the police” cost them for crucial meetings of the House and Senate.
Why it’s important: Democrats may have won the White House, but their party lacked expectations in congressional elections, and some members are publicly and privately blaming their more liberal allies.
- Before the election, the U.S. Democrats in the House of Representatives were keen to increase their majority, but at least seven seats and some of their new members who just rolled into Republican districts two years ago.
- They still retain control of that chamber, but failed to win directly from the Senate. (That could change if Democratic candidates win both parts of the Georgia Senate in January.)
What they are saying: “Well, it just happened because we couldn’t discipline ourselves,” Cleburn said, “Axis on HBO.”
- “We keep making that mistake. This stupidity, ‘You became this progressive or that progressive,'” he added.
- “That sentence – ‘defaming the police’ – which Harrison had to spend a lot of money on,” Kleiberne told Republican Sen. Lindsay told Graham about the Democratic Senate candidate who failed to unsettle South Carolina.
Between the lines: Although Kliburn acknowledged that there was no single reason for Harrison’s loss, he aimed to “shout” around liberal policies and urged his Democratic colleagues to “be as pragmatic as I am.”
- “Stop shouting,” he said. “Slogans kill people. Statements destroy movements. Stop shouting slogans. And let’s do the business of representing the people and creating hopes and aspirations for the people.”
- Cliburn is not alone. Many members feel the same way from the leaked Dio of the Democratic Caucus-wide conference call last week.
- Rip of Texas. Mark Villesy said the Republicans received ammunition for using “commercial after commercial” against their candidates through these sources.
- Rep. Who won re-election in Virginia. Abigail Spanberger, a colleague of hers, who accepted the “defame the police” movement, said Democrats needed to be better at fighting. Labeled “socialism”.
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