Left-leaning challengers in the Rust belt are throwing chaos into a divided party struggling to rebuild after Trump’s win
From Detroit to Pennsylvania to Buffalo, New York, and here in Ohio, insurgent, progressive Democrats are defeating their long-established colleagues in dozens of school board, city council and mayoral races, throwing the already-divided national party into chaos, even as polls indicate it stands to potentially benefit at next year’s midterm elections due to the Trump administration’s divisive policies.
In Lancaster, Pennsylvania, one of seven swing states whose voters in recent years have decided the country’s presidential election, 37-year-old Jaime Arroyo was elected mayor on 4 November, becoming the first Latino mayor in the city’s 295-year history. In La Crosse, Wisconsin, another swing state, Shaundel Washington-Spivey, the city’s first Black and out gay mayor, beat a fellow Democratic party candidate with extensive local government experience last April.
Candidates such as Turner-Sloss, Arroyo and Washington-Spivey are campaigning on combating rising housing costs and providing better public transit infrastructure at a time when affordability issues and federal government policies are driving many working families into crisis.
And is that because they’re terrible at winning or because they don’t want to win? Take your pick. Either way they need to go.
And they used that opportunity to pass checks notes Romneycare. So productive.
If they’ve spent decades fighting that “battle” and this is the result, maybe they’re not actually fighting at all.
If you don’t think they want to pass what they introduce: call their bluff and promote them and vote for them.
If you do think they want to pass what they introduce: call their bluff and promote them and vote for them.
If you want Republicans to win: insult the DNC
Sure, fuck the DNC and this is why.