THE DCCC IS SUPPOSED TO HELP DEMOCRATS RUNNING FOR OFFICE IN
THE HOUSE, AND THEY DO, IF YOU AGREE TO THE RULES.
THE YOUNG
TURKS BROKE A STORY ABOUT A MEMO THEY SENT TO A LOT OF THE
CANDIDATES SAYING YOU HAVE TO SPEND 75% OF YOUR MONEY ON PAID
COMMUNICATION, THEN THEY SENT THEM A LIST OF CONSULTANTS,
COINCIDENTALLY THEY HAPPEN TO BE LINKED TO PEOPLE WHO WORK AT THE
DCCC, WHO THEY SHOULD USE TO SPEND THAT MONEY.
NOW THEY ARE
GOING AROUND THE COUNTRY ATTACKING PROGRESSIVES WHO HAVE
NOT BEEN PREORDAINED AS THEIR PICK.
WHAT DOES THE DCCC DEMAND
WHEN THEY ARE LOOKING TO BACK YOU?
ONE, THAT YOU HAVE A LOT OF
MONEY, EITHER YOU ARE A MILLIONAIRE OR BILLIONAIRE
YOURSELF OR YOU KNOW A LOT OF MILLIONAIRES AND CAN RAISE A LOT
OF MONEY.
TO THE ASK YOU WHAT YOUR POLICY POSITIONS ARE?
NO.
DO THEY CARE IF YOU ARE MORE PROGRESSIVE?
THEY MIGHT, BUT IN
THE WRONG DIRECTION, BUT THEY DON'T EVEN BOTHER TO ASK IN THE
BEGINNING.
THE SECOND THING THEY WANT IS TO MAKE SURE THAT IF YOU
HAVE THAT MONEY YOU WILL SPEND IT WITH THEIR FRIENDS.
SOME OF
THE PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES HAVE RAISED MORE MONEY THAN THE
ESTABLISHMENT CANDIDATES, BUT SINCE IT'S NOT GOING TO THE
CONSULTANT FRIENDS OF THE DCCC THEY ARE SERIOUS ABOUT IT.
SO
THEY ATTACKED A PROGRESSIVE IN TEXAS, LAURA MOSER, SHE HAS HER
PRIMARY COMING UP TOMORROW IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE WHAT
HAPPENS THERE AND I WILL TELL YOU A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THAT AT
THE END OF THIS STORY, BUT NOW THEY ARE ATTACKING ANOTHER
PROGRESSIVE IN PENNSYLVANIA, GREG EDWARDS, HE'S ALSO A
JUSTICE DEMOCRAT WHICH MEANS HE DOESN'T TAKE CORPORATE CASH.
PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON DON'T LIKE THAT, THEIR BREAD-AND-BUTTER IS
CORPORATE CASH.
SO LOOK AT THIS, LO AND BEHOLD THEY ARE AGAINST
GREG EDWARDS AS WELL.
SO LET'S FIND OUT HOW.
WE GO TO THE
WASHINGTON POST, THEY SAY --
>>LET ME BE CLEAR, A LOWER OFFICE.
YOU ARE NOT WELCOME
HERE.
A PASTOR RUNNING AS A DEMOCRAT WOULD APPEAR TO BE A
GOOD STORY UNLESS OF COURSE THE PASTOR WAS UNCORRUPTED.
EDWARDS
SAYS --
>>I WANT TO COME BACK TO THAT REASONING IN A SECOND, BUT MORE
FROM DAVID WEIGEL HERE --
>>BEFORE I GET TO WHY THEY MIGHT DO THAT AND WHETHER THAT
IS LEGITIMATE OR NOT, LET'S FIGURE OUT IF THEY ACTUALLY DID
DO THAT.
SO --
>>SO A LOWER SEAT THEN UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE, WHICH IS
WHAT THEY ARE RUNNING FOR.
AND MEREDITH KELLEY, COMMUNICATIONS
DIRECTOR FOR THE DCCC, DOESN'T QUITE DENY IT, SHE SAYS AT THE
END THAT IT'S NOT EXACTLY RIGHT, BUT LET ME GIVE YOU HER
FULL QUOTE --
>>I THINK SHE PHRASED IT A LITTLE BIT WRONG THERE.
IF SHE
HAD SAID HE DIDN'T DEMAND THAT ANYONE DROP OUT OF THE RACE,
DIDN'T FORCE THEM TO DROP OUT OF THE RACE, THAT WOULD BE
TECHNICALLY CORRECT.
BUT IT APPEARS HE LITERALLY ASKED THEM,
HEY, DO YOU MIND DROPPING OUT OF THE RACE AND GOING FURTHER DOWN
THE BALLOT?
IN FACT, HERE IS MORE CONFIRMATION --
>>WELL, THAT APPEARS TO BE A
CONFIRMATION.
YOU MIGHT THINK
THAT'S PERFECTLY NORMAL BUT THAT'S A CONFIRMATION, AND GREG
EDWARDS, THE CANDIDATE, RESPONDS --
>>AND APPARENTLY THEY DID TALK TO THE CAMPAIGN, AND THE EDWARDS
CAMPAIGN TOOK IT AS AN ADMISSION AS WELL THAT THEY WERE TRYING TO
GET HIM OUT OF THE RACE.
NOW, DOESN'T MAKE SENSE OR DOES IT
NOT MAKE SENSE?
LOOK, SOME OF THESE RACES ARE CROWDED, THEY
ALL HAVE DIFFERENT DYNAMICS DEPENDING ON THE STATES, AND IF
YOU HAVE A RUNOFF PRIMARY SOMETIMES THEY SAY WELL, IF
THERE ARE TOO MANY DEMOCRATS IN THE RACE IT WILL HELP THE FEW
REPUBLICANS GET INTO THE RUNOFF, I DON'T BELIEVE IN THAT EITHER
BUT IT'S AN ARGUMENT THAT COULD BE MADE, BUT THE MAIN REASON
THEY DO IT, ESPECIALLY IN A PLACE LIKE PENNSYLVANIA, IS THEY
THINK, NO, WE WANT THE GUY WHO IS MOST ELECTABLE.
I THINK THEY
GENUINELY BELIEVE THAT, THEY ALSO WANT A GUY WHO'S GOING TO
FUNNEL MONEY TO THEM, BUT I THINK THEY HAVE GOTTEN
THEMSELVES TO BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE
ELECTABLE.
THE PROBLEM COMES IN THE NEXT STEP, WHICH IS THEIR
ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT WHO IS ELECTABLE.
THERE ARE SEVERAL
DIFFERENT LAYERS TO IT, FOR THEM THERE IS ONLY ONE LAYER, HOW
MUCH MONEY DO YOU HAVE AND ARE YOU WILLING TO SPEND IT WITH OUR
CONSULTANTS?
THAT IS THEIR ONLY METRIC OF VIABILITY.
THEN THE
NUMBER TWO LAYER IS, OKAY, MAYBE GREG EDWARDS HAS MORE
VOLUNTEERS, MAYBE HE HAS MORE MEDIA ATTENTION, MAYBE HE'S
WINNING A STRAW POLL, AS NOW LAURA MOSER IS.
BUT THEY DON'T
LOOK AT THOSE METRICS.
WHEREAS I THINK THEY SHOULD.
AND THEY HAVE
BEEN TOLD, AND NOW HAVE INTERNALIZED FROM THE RAHM
EMANUELS OF THE WORLD, IS THAT QUOTE UNQUOTE CENTRISTS ARE MORE
LIKELY TO WIN IN A DISTRICT THAT USED TO BE REPUBLICAN.
WELL,
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE CENTRIST?
THEY HAVE INTERPRETED
THAT TO MEAN IF YOU TAKE CORPORATE CASH AND YOU ARE
WILLING TO VOTE WITH THE REPUBLICANS EITHER FROM TIME TO
TIME WERE QUITE OFTEN.
IS THEIR GOOD EVIDENCE TO PROVE THAT
THOSE REPUBLICAN-LITE CANDIDATES DO BETTER ELECTORALLY?
THE
ANSWER IS NO, THERE ISN'T.
THE INTERCEPT RAN A GREAT PIECE
ABOUT THE 2016 ELECTIONS THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE TEST CASE
FOR RAHM EMANUEL FOR BEING RIGHT BECAUSE HE WAS RUNNING THE DCCC
AT THE TIME AND THEY HAD A WAVE ELECTION FOR DEMOCRATS SWEEPING
INTO OFFICE, BUT IF YOU BREAK DOWN WHO WON THAT RACE, IT'S
OFTEN THE PEOPLE THAT EMANUEL DIDN'T BACK, AND A LOT OF THE
CANDIDATES HE DID BACK WITH A TON OF CORPORATE CASH THAT RAN
AS REPUBLICAN-LITE ACTUALLY LOST SEATS THAT COULD HAVE BEEN
WINNABLE.
THEY DON'T HAVE GOOD EVIDENCE ON THEIR SIDE.
AND THEY
THINK, BECAUSE THEY'VE BEEN TOLD BY THE RAHM EMANUELS OF THE
WORLD, PROGRESSIVES DON'T KNOW ANYTHING, THEY AREN'T PRACTICAL,
THEY AREN'T PRAGMATIC, THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND POLITICS -- NO,
YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND POLITICS.
YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT A
POPULIST MESSAGE IS MORE LIKELY TO WORK.
THAT A GUY LIKE GREG
EDWARDS, WHO IS A PASTOR FROM THE COMMUNITY, SAYING ONGOING TO
LOOK OUT WITH THE COMMUNITY AND ON WHAT TO FIGHT TO RAISE YOUR
WAGES, THAT'S NOT AN IMPRACTICAL MESSAGE.
YOUR IDIOTIC MESSAGE OF
I WILL HELP CORPORATIONS AND THEY MIGHT OR MIGHT NOT HELP YOU
AT A LATER TIME IS NOT RESONATING, IT'S NOT WORKING
WITH VOTERS.
AND YOUR OBSESSION WITH CORPORATE MONEY HAS NOW
BECOME CLEARLY COUNTER PRODUCTIVE.
AND BY THE WAY ALL
THE MONEY YOU ARE THROWING IN TV IS NO LONGER WORKING.
TO ALL
THOSE ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT WHO IS ELECTABLE ARE WRONG.
THEN THERE
IS A 3RD LAYER, WHICH IS IN THIS CASE RACE.
NOW, I WOULD BE
SURPRISED IF THE GUYS AT THE DCCC WERE SOME ASSERTIVE RABID
RACISTS THINKING WE HAVE TO CHASE THAT BLACK PASTOR OUT OF
THE RACE.
BUT DO THEY HAVE CERTAIN ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT WHO IS
ELECTABLE IN A REPUBLICAN DISTRICT?
THEY MIGHT THINK IN A
DISTRICT THAT USED TO BE REPUBLICAN, ALL THE DISTRICTS
HAVE BEEN REDRAWN IN PENNSYLVANIA SO THAT'S TOTALLY
UP IN THE AIR, AND BY THE WAY IF THERE IS A WAY OF COMING THAT'S
THE WHOLE POINT, YOU UNSEAT REPUBLICANS AND GET DEMOCRATS TO
WIN -- THEY HAVE THIS ASSUMPTION THAT THOSE DISTRICTS ARE
INCREDIBLY RIGHT WING AND ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS GIVING
EVERYTHING TO CORPORATIONS, AND PERHAPS DISCRIMINATING AGAINST
CERTAIN PEOPLE.
SO GIVEN THEIR ASSUMPTIONS, IT BECOMES LESS
SURPRISING THAT THEY WOULD THINK MAYBE GREG EDWARDS IS NOT
"ELECTABLE."
I CAN'T WAIT TO PROVE THEM WRONG.
I THINK
PROGRESSIVES ARE FAR MORE ELECTABLE, I THINK WE WILL FIND
OUT BECAUSE WE WILL HAVE THESE PRIMARIES, THE PENNSYLVANIA
PRIMARIES ARE COMING SOON, BY THE WAY IF YOU WOULD LIKE FOR
THIS INANE STRATEGY OF THE CORPORATE ESTABLISHMENT
DEMOCRATS TO BACKFIRE, GO HELP GREG EDWARDS, WE WILL SHARE HIS
LINKS WITH YOU GUYS.
DONATE SO THAT HE CAN COMPETE WITH THE BIG
DONOR MONEY THAT'S BEING POURED IN BY THE DEMOCRATS.
WE'LL HAVE
ALL THOSE LINKS DOWN BELOW IN THE DESCRIPTION BOX ON YOUTUBE
AND THE COMMENTS SECTION IN FACEBOOK.
NOW, DIDN'T WORK IN
THE CASE OF LAURA MOSER?
THEY ARE ATTACKING GREG EDWARDS BUT
LAST WEEK THEY ATTACKED LAURA MOSER, ANOTHER JUSTICE DEMOCRAT,
WHO HAS AN ELECTION TOMORROW IN TEXAS BY THE WAY.
CHECK OUT OUR
LIVE COVERAGE OF THAT TOMORROW NIGHT AT 8 O'CLOCK EASTERN.
HERE
IS A REPORT FROM THE WASHINGTON POST ABOUT THAT --
>>OOPS.
THEY ATTACKED HER PUBLICLY AND SAID SHE IS THE
REAL PROGRESSIVE IN THE RACE, AND PEOPLE WERE LIKE, THANK YOU,
I APPRECIATE THAT, WE WILL MOVE HER UP TO SECOND PLACE AND
HOPEFULLY GET HER IN THE RUNOFF.
THAT POLL BY THE WAY WAS DONE BY
THE REPUBLICANS SO TAKE IT WITH A GRAIN OF SALT, BUT NO ONE IS
DISPUTING THE NUMBERS INVOLVED, IN THE REPUBLICANS ALSO HAVE
TOTALLY WRONG ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT WHO IS AND ISN'T ELECTABLE.
NOW
FINALLY BACK TO POLITICO ON THE LAURA MOSER SITUATION AND AN
UPDATE ON IT --
>>OOPS.
ALL YOU DID WAS HELP
HER, SO I HOPE THAT IS THE CASE
WITH GREG EDWARDS AS WELL.
AT LEAST THE DCCC HAS NOW TOLD YOU
WHO THE REAL PROGRESSIVE IN THE RACE IS.
YOU MIGHT WANT TO ACT
BASED ON THAT INFORMATION.
BY THE WAY WE WILL ALSO HAVE LAURA
MOSER'S LINKS DOWN BELOW, AND IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT ALL THE
UNCORRUPTED CANDIDATES GO TO JUSTICEDEMOCRATS.COM AND YOU
WILL SEE THERE ARE 52 CANDIDATES ACROSS THE COUNTRY, AND
APPARENTLY THE DEMOCRATIC ESTABLISHMENT IS NOW RUNNING
SCARED.