Another leadership test for Pelosi, who’s weathered many

“Republicans took back the House and the Senate in 2010 more or less with no message, except for that they were against everything that Obama was for, and no policies”, Mollineau told Business Insider. One night we found ourselves in a conservative Kentucky district where the Republican should have been ahead by 20 points.

But Democratic candidates have come up short against better-funded Republicans.

It doesn’t matter that those answers can not become policy given the political make-up today; it matters more that citizens be presented with viable solutions that become part of the debate and are embedded in the policy landscape.

Well, there was a lot riding on Georgia 6th’s special election. “But this is something we certainly have to discuss, because it’s clear that I think across the board in the Democratic Party, we need new leadership”. Another rising House Democrat, former California Rep. Xavier Becerra, departed the House in late 2016 to accept an appointment as California’s attorney general.

But Democrats did this to themselves. The Democrats’ unyielding anger could be what keeps them motivated for a year, but could also be what causes their defeat in 2018.

The party still doesn’t know what it is or needs to be – and that can portend problems heading into next year’s midterms. Sometimes presidents are more or less popular than their party.

It is this wealthiest 10 percent, however, who are the political universe as far as the corporate media and the electoral activities of both the Democratic and Republican parties are concerned. They must pick up 24 seats to do so. And maybe with good reason.

But by the end of May, Handel herself had received more donations from outside Georgia than inside.

“Time to move forward and win again”, he wrote.

Pelosi, 77, has led the House Democratic caucus for almost 15 years, from the minority into the majority and back again.

The House Democratic Leader has few current peers when it comes to pumping money into colleagues’ campaigns.

Democrats, freshly stung by the loss of Jon Ossoff in the Georgia 6th congressional district race Tuesday night, have renewed talk of dropping House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and refocusing their message. “It is possible that he could actually get re-elected if Democrats aren’t careful”.

The other ingredient they need is an agenda. That’s not to mention what it could mean in Washington.

Handel ran a localized race but had to battle against the Trump effect.

Rep. Cedric Richmond, the Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, who many have touted as a rising star in the party, attended the session, according to three Democrats who also attended. Will that be how other candidates in somewhat moderate districts deal with the Trump factor?

For Republicans, health-care legislation, soon to emerge from secrecy in the Senate, remains a struggle to enact. On Thursday, the National Republican Senatorial Committee sent out a press release attacking Nevada Democratic Rep. Jacky Rosen over her ties to Pelosi. She was the main focus of numerous Republicans’ ads against Ossoff.

Rep. Seth Moulton, a prominent freshman Democrat from MA, agreed.

Ossoff tried to walk the Dean-Moulton Line. Veteran GOP ad-maker Brad Todd says that’s because the San Francisco congresswoman is the personification of the liberal values they can’t stomach.

Progressives made this about Trump, even if Ossoff didn’t, and they lost.

David Gergen’s remarks about re-election are timely as President Trump is scheduled to hold his first re-election fundraiser next week on June 28. As Ossoff learned, money doesn’t always buy political happiness. It could be that he should have leaned in more to the anti-Trump messaging.

It’s unlikely that fundraising record will be broken next year, when the attention of Democratic donors will be spread out over hundreds of competitive races around the country.

Laugh! As she runs through her resume! Any reasonable person should have been able to look objectively at the data and see that district was a Republican district. But even in a relatively affluent area like the Sixth Congressional District of Georgia, those who have “watched their portfolios grow” are only a small minority.

It could be in part because the national party largely stayed out of the race.