The other day I wrote about Tim Canova, who is running in Florida’s 23rd congressional district Democratic primary for the seat of the entirely incompetent Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Wasserman Schultz became chair of the party in May 2011. Since then, the party has lost power at every level of the country, with the sole exception of the White House (a re-election campaign she had little to do with—in fact, the president’s campaign team did very little to hide their complete disdain for her). Today, Thomas Edsall writes about the Republican Party’s 50-state strategy and he underscores in three paragraphs why the chair of the DNC must go:
Seven years ago, Democrats had a commanding lead in state legislatures, controlling both legislative chambers in 27 states, nearly double the 14 controlled by Republicans. They held 4082 state senate and house seats, compared to the Republicans’ 3223.
Sweeping Republican victories at the state level in 2010 and 2014 transformed the political landscape.
By 2015, there were Republican majorities in 70 percent — 68 of 98 — of the nation’s partisan state houses and senates, the highest number in the party’s history. (Nebraska isn’t counted in because it has a non-partisan, unicameral legislature.) Republicans controlled the legislature and governorship in 23 states, more than triple the seven under full Democratic control.
If we can’t get the elites to dump this entirely incompetent DNC chair, we can get her out of Congress. So, throw a few bucks over to Tim.
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