Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (N.Y.), the chairman of House Democrats' campaign arm, said Wednesday he’s doing a deep dive into the party’s election failures in 2020, including a look at “why the polling sucked.” Speaking at an event hosted by Politico, Maloney said the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has commissioned a report examining why the party lost more than a dozen House seats over the course of an election in which they won the White House and a majority in the Senate. “I’m doing a deep dive to figure out why the polling sucked, why we were misled on the status of certain races … on how we do digital, on how we use qualitative research versus quantitative research,” he said. “There’s a lot to learn. We’re looking at it … and we will have a report.” ADVERTISEMENT Democrats were expecting to pick up seats and add to their majority in the House in 2020. Instead, Democrats lost 15 seats and entered the year with the smallest House majority in modern times. Maloney said Wednesday he expects the Democrats will maintain their majority in the House following the 2022 midterm elections, which are historically difficult for a new president’s party. Democrats currently hold 222 House seats. “We’re going to keep the House and it will be more than the 218 seats,” Maloney said. “I do believe we are in a strong position to retain and grow this majority … because we’ll defeat the pandemic, get the economy roaring again, and we’re not divided like the Republicans, who are trying to decide between the QAnon mob or whether to be a responsible governing party. They’re having a civil war with each other,” he said. It was particularly galling for Democrats in 2020 that the party underperformed among Latino voters in key swing states, such as Florida, and in border districts in Texas. Maloney on Wednesday accused Republicans of misrepresenting Democratic views on socialism and defunding the police, saying those attacks may have contributed ...
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Mean tweets may take down Biden nominee
Neera Tanden Neera Tanden The Memo: Biden faces first major setback as Tanden teeters On The Money: Manhattan DA obtains Trump tax returns | Biden nominee previews post-Trump trade agenda | Biden faces first setback as Tanden teeters Washington Post denounces abuse of reporter MORE 's confirmation struggles are raising the question: Do mean tweets matter in the post-Trump world? They certainly are making a difference for Tanden. Her nomination as President Biden's budget chief appears to be hanging by a thread, mostly because of GOP senators angered by her sharp tone on Twitter as head of the Center for American Progress. ADVERTISEMENT The White House is sticking with Tanden so far, but it does not appear she has 50 votes of support in the Senate. And while it is mostly Republicans complaining about her tweets, they've been joined by Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin Joseph (Joe) Manchin Minimum wage setback revives progressive calls to nix Senate filibuster Biden 'disappointed' in Senate parliamentarian ruling but 'respects' decision House Democrats to keep minimum wage hike in COVID-19 relief bill for Friday vote MORE (W.Va.), who says he'll oppose her nomination because of her Twitter voice. Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders House Democrats to keep minimum wage hike in COVID-19 relief bill for Friday vote Sanders slams parliamentarian decision on minimum wage Parliamentarian nixes minimum wage hike in coronavirus bill MORE (I-Vt.) has also felt her barbs on Twitter and has been notable in not offering his public backing. There's little doubt Tanden, a longtime adviser to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton Democratic strategists start women-run media consulting firm Pelosi top fundraiser moves to House Democratic super PAC Mean tweets may take down Biden nominee MORE , was an impressive voice both on cable news and social media ...
Obama says reparations ‘justified’
Former President Obama said earlier this week that the case for reparations for Black Americans is “justified,” but he added that the “politics of white resistance and resentment,” among other issues, made the prospect of pursuing the issue during his presidency a “non-starter.” “So, if you ask me theoretically: ‘Are reparations justified?’ The answer is yes,” the former president said in an episode on he and Bruce Springsteen’s new “Renegades: Born in the U.S.A.” podcast that launched on Spotify earlier this week. “There’s not much question that the wealth of this country, the power of this country was built in significant part — not exclusively, maybe not even the majority of it — but a large portion of it was built on the backs of slaves,” he continued. ADVERTISEMENT “What I saw during my presidency was the politics of white resistance and resentment, the talk of welfare queens and the talk of the undeserving poor and the backlash against affirmative action,” he said, adding that “all that made the prospect of actually proposing any kind of coherent, meaningful reparations program struck me as, politically, not only a non-starter but potentially counterproductive.” Obama previously spoke about reparations during his 2008 presidential campaign, saying in remarks at the time that while he agreed with “the underlying sentiment of recognizing the continued legacy of slavery” he had concerns about the issue. “I fear that reparations would be an excuse for some to say ‘we’ve paid our debt’ and to avoid the much harder work of enforcing our anti-discrimination laws in employment and housing; the much harder work of making sure that our schools are not separate and unequal; the much harder work of providing job training programs and rehabilitating young men coming out of prison every year; and the much harder work of lifting 37 million Americans of all races out of poverty,” he said then, according to The Washington Post . “These challenges will not ...
