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Showing Original Post only (View all)AOC to Pelosi: "No one gets to complain about primary challenges again." [View all]
Washington (CNN)House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has endorsed Rep. Joe Kennedy in his effort to unseat Sen. Ed Markey in an upcoming Massachusetts Senate Democratic primary. The move puts the California Democrat squarely in the middle of a closely-watched fight and could deliver a boost to Kennedy ahead of the September 1 primary election where he is challenging Markey, who served alongside Pelosi for decades as a member of the House of Representatives.
...A Kennedy has never lost Massachusetts. But Markey, 74, has countered the shine of the Kennedy name by projecting the power of some of the party's stars, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, who have fundraised for the senator. Progressives, who have spent the last five years on the attack, trying to win seats from moderate incumbents in the House, have put their full weight behind Markey's campaign, and view the defense of his seat as one of their most important fights of the cycle.
... Progressives -- including Ocasio-Cortez -- reacted to the news with frustration. Party leadership has been aggressive in seeking to defend its incumbents against primary challengers, but Pelosi's endorsement, they argued, came in defiance of that rule. "No one gets to complain about primary challenges again," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, punctuating the sentence with a happy emoji, before addressing the House Democratic campaign arm. "When can we expect you to reverse your blacklist policy against primary orgs?," she asked. "Because between this & lack of care around @IlhanMN's challenger, it seems like less a policy and more a cherry-picking activity."
...Justice Democrats, the group that has drawn Pelosi's ire for launching and supporting progressive primary campaigns against members of her caucus, accused the Speaker of hypocrisy and "using her power to undermine the next generation of Democratic voters and the progressive champions we choose to believe in. For two years, Democratic Party leadership has endorsed incumbents over progressive primary challengers claiming it is their policy to always back incumbents -- even when the incumbent was anti-choice and endorsed by the NRA," Justice Democrats executive director Alexandra Rojas said.
More at https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/20/politics/pelosi-kennedy-endorsement-massachusetts-senate-race/index.html
...A Kennedy has never lost Massachusetts. But Markey, 74, has countered the shine of the Kennedy name by projecting the power of some of the party's stars, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, who have fundraised for the senator. Progressives, who have spent the last five years on the attack, trying to win seats from moderate incumbents in the House, have put their full weight behind Markey's campaign, and view the defense of his seat as one of their most important fights of the cycle.
... Progressives -- including Ocasio-Cortez -- reacted to the news with frustration. Party leadership has been aggressive in seeking to defend its incumbents against primary challengers, but Pelosi's endorsement, they argued, came in defiance of that rule. "No one gets to complain about primary challenges again," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, punctuating the sentence with a happy emoji, before addressing the House Democratic campaign arm. "When can we expect you to reverse your blacklist policy against primary orgs?," she asked. "Because between this & lack of care around @IlhanMN's challenger, it seems like less a policy and more a cherry-picking activity."
...Justice Democrats, the group that has drawn Pelosi's ire for launching and supporting progressive primary campaigns against members of her caucus, accused the Speaker of hypocrisy and "using her power to undermine the next generation of Democratic voters and the progressive champions we choose to believe in. For two years, Democratic Party leadership has endorsed incumbents over progressive primary challengers claiming it is their policy to always back incumbents -- even when the incumbent was anti-choice and endorsed by the NRA," Justice Democrats executive director Alexandra Rojas said.
More at https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/20/politics/pelosi-kennedy-endorsement-massachusetts-senate-race/index.html
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AOC to Pelosi: "No one gets to complain about primary challenges again." [View all]
BeyondGeography
Aug 2020
OP
I live in NC, and AOC may be popular in the bluest of the blue districts, but she has become as....
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2020
#129
So you will endorse and vote for "a Kennedy" just because of the name?
question everything
Aug 2020
#93
I can't see a reason to not like AOC because of this, she's speaking truth, why is that a problem?
BamaRefugee
Aug 2020
#9
So am I... and I'm so pleased that she did. I trust Nancy. She knows what she's doing.
NurseJackie
Aug 2020
#15
Considering her ire at other people primarying Democrats it seems rather off. I will say you are
Autumn
Aug 2020
#20
Nancy knows what she's doing. My confidence in her is far from "Hero Worship"...
NurseJackie
Aug 2020
#47
Nancy ROCKS!! She's got what it takes! She's proved it OVER AND OVER AGAIN!
NurseJackie
Aug 2020
#68
I'm sure some of the same people who challenged her last time will do it again. Nancy
Autumn
Aug 2020
#44
Sarandon used that against Hillary... but John Edwards' IWR vote never bothered her.
NurseJackie
Aug 2020
#67
I didn't watch since im not in that state but I thought Kennedy did horrible in the debates
JI7
Aug 2020
#42
Pelosi is hitching herself to a sinking ship in that campaign. They've squandered a 20 point lead
liskddksil
Aug 2020
#23
Seriously? A third party? There are a couple already which only appear sporatically...
brush
Aug 2020
#50
This is a toughy as Kennnedy is a "magic" name in Mass. And why is AOC backing Markey?
brush
Aug 2020
#32
Because she's gotten so much flak from Pelosi for supporting Progressives over incumbents
Doremus
Aug 2020
#51
Pelosi should not have endorsed anybody in this race, especially at this stage in the process
still_one
Aug 2020
#33
It isn't because of that, it is because of her vocal position that Democratic incumbents shouldn't
still_one
Aug 2020
#46
We mostly are agree on things anyway Bannon. I just think it is an unnecessary distraction
still_one
Aug 2020
#58
It's definitely not ideal, I'll give you that. And yes, I agree that we agree on most stuff.
BannonsLiver
Aug 2020
#62
I suspect it was probably backing someone from the House against the Senate.
OnDoutside
Aug 2020
#99
Pelosi's decision to endorse in this race against a Democratic incumbent is inexplicable.
tritsofme
Aug 2020
#87
Yes. And the outage in some places was epic. Dem leadership decided that the policy should be
Autumn
Aug 2020
#116
I wish she would focus her energy on the republicans and support the dems
Evergreen Emerald
Aug 2020
#117
She's got it wrong, too. The DCCC's decision applies to HOUSE primaries, not SENATE primaries.
George II
Aug 2020
#132
The "rule" that she's referring to was established by the DCCC, not Nancy Pelosi. The DCCC is...
George II
Aug 2020
#137