Ellison Edged by Perez for DNC Chair

Perez, who is the former labor secretary under President Obama and is the first Latino to lead the DNC, narrowly defeated Rep.

While the mainstream media portrayed Perez’s election as evidence that Democrats are seeking to moderate their current hard-left stance, the reality is that both candidates are committed lefties.

The race between Perez and Ellison, the two front runners in a large field of candidates, turned somewhat into a proxy war between supporters of Sen.

The three-day meeting includes the election of a new DNC chairperson.

Ellison pushed back against what he termed “false allegations”, and pointed to the hundreds of rabbis and Jewish community leaders who have endorsed him. Bernie Sanders and his supporters, has the support of about 153 members, the strategists said.

“We don’t have the luxury of walking out of this room divided”, Ellison said Saturday over the jeers.

Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, told Democratic National Committee members Saturday that he did not have the votes and was removing his name from consideration.

Ellison, when pressed by the CNN moderator, declared his support for the United States alliance with Israel as a cornerstone of foreign policy in the Middle East, in an effort to counter the whispering campaign against him because of his Muslim faith. DNC members from Wyoming-where the Vermont senator notched a huge caucus victory but due to party rules emerged with few delegates-who are not on board are feeling the heat. Perez said that a united Democratic Party is not only Democrats best hope, but Donald Trump’s worst nightmare.

For their parts, Ellison and Perez had praised each other and promised unity regardless of the outcome.

“Hopefully Tom Perez will prove that he is able to do that”. “This race is not about Keith Ellison, it’s not about Tom Perez“.

“No, Donald Trump, you can’t go to Staples and buy anti-Russian hacking software”, she said, urging Congress to investigate whether Russians hacked the Republican National Committee.

Restive activists threatened to support primary challenges to elected Democrats seen as not liberal enough, creating tension reminiscent of the tea-party wave that began targeting Republicans deemed as too moderate beginning in 2009. According to people with knowledge of the conversations, Buckley had asked his rivals for control over day-to-day operations of the organization, as well as the next presidential convention, in return for his support. “What we need is a fair trade policy, not an unfettered free trade policy”.

Combining anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim bigotry in a single sentence, Breitbart asserted that these “left-wing Jews” were backing Ellison “in spite of his support for Islam”.