From Brooklynite, House Dems move to hobble primary challengers.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

This was locked in Late Breaking News because it was Primary-related. Thanks to Brooklynite for finding it.

House Democrats Move to Hobble Primary Challengers


Source: National Journal

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is making an early move to deter primary challenges against sitting incumbents in the caucus with a new policy aimed in part at protecting the new majority.

The campaign arm on Friday sent out a list of hiring standards to more than 100 political firms, including one provision that made clear it will neither contract with nor recommend to House candidates any political vendors that work to oust sitting members of Congress. That offers key protection to the caucus’s moderate members in battleground seats, where House control will be won or lost.

It is intended to help stymie attempts by insurgent progressive groups who plan to primary incumbents deemed insufficiently liberal on key issues, but also to shield members of the party's ascendant liberal wing who represent safe Democratic territory and could face intraparty challenges of their own.

"The core mission of the DCCC is electing House Democrats, which includes supporting and protecting incumbents,” the committee wrote in a memo.

Read more: https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/677493?unlock=0FAOJVLRMIIGKLY7

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[still_one]

1. Thanks for saving it

[msongs]

2. un democratic of them. no $ fine but blacklisting... no. nt

[Tarc]

3. AOC bounced her entrenched old man opponent with a minimal campaign apparatus

If the DCCC wants to try to lock up career pollsters and talking heads, thinking that will prevent the next AOC or Ilhan Omar, good luck with that, schmucks.

[NurseJackie]

4. The odd scheduling of the primaries also benefited her.

[melman]

5. Nope

She had a powerful message that resonated with voters.

And she put in the work, knocked on doors met people. That's why she won.

That's it. Those are the facts.

[R B Garr]

6. She admitted on her many TV appearances that the low

primary turnout benefited her. The reason for the low turnout appears to be confusion about the earlier June date compared with the second primary in September.

It’s surprising you didn’t see her many talk show appearances after she won.

[NurseJackie]

7. Thank you. Facts. Not fantasy.

[R B Garr]

9. .....

It is a bit hard to believe someone doesn’t remember her many TV appearances after she won . She was asked the same questions over and over.

[NurseJackie]

8. ...

[Demsrule86]

11. Only 5% of voters showed up in the primary. AOC will be helped by this

because in my opinion she would have been challenged in 20.

[Demsrule86]

10. Good let's spend money on taking Republican seats not destroying

Our own folks. This purity crap must end.

[oasis]

12. Counter(Our)revolutionaries. nt

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

13. At this point, it PRESERVES our revolutionaries. Counters the counter-revolutionaries?

This should make it difficult to fund any primary challenges to Tlaib, AOC, Omar, etc. So, it helps secure their seats in 2020.

[octoberlib]

14. This has always been the unofficial policy

but they’d make exceptions for Dems like Lipinski. Bustos probably made them put this statement out.

[Tom Rinaldo]

15. The practical implications vary, some may be good, others bad. But this is anti-democratic

I can not support any effort that across the board is designed to support incumbents because they are incumbents. Period. I suspect many incumbents, if they got their secret wish, would be happy to find a way to do away with primaries altogether.