Jeffries on Kat Abughazaleh's primary challenge of Jan Schakow: "I'm not familiar with who you are talking about."

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50. What do you think that leadership and the DCCC didn't do for incumbents 1n 2020?

The Bush-Clay rematch in Missouri’s 1st District is already enmeshed in a party fight over the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s controversial decision to support incumbents, like Clay, over challengers like Bush.

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/illinois/wagner-and-clay-aggressively-fundraising-in-anticipation-of-2020-election-challenges/article_b12472a7-5b2c-5998-b42d-f063bcdd4602.html

Pelosi backs Engel ahead of tight New York primary

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/04/pelosi-engel-new-york-primary-301507

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So to review,

- campaign strategy is not governed by parliamentary rules of procedure
- the Democratic Leader/Speaker endorses incumbents as policy to protect and grow the caucus
- incumbents in 2020, 2022, and 2024 were all endorsed by House leadership

This must be really important to you for some reason, seeing that you've made so comments.

I read profiles.