DNC chair: Trump’s speech was ‘Bannon on steroids with a smile’

“And he said, ‘Yes”.

A liberal Democrat defeated another liberal Democrat in the race to head the Democratic National Committee.

Buckley, NHDP first vice chair and state Sen. It is far easier for the hard left fringe of the Democrats to win primaries and conduct loud demonstrations than to win national or state wide elections.

Joanne Dowdell, an at-large member of the DNC, also backed Ellison.

Perez spoke in December on a phone call organized by Jewish backers of Clinton, who feared Ellison’s baggage would erode Jewish support for the party that has traditionally drawn at least two-thirds of the Jewish vote.

Claims that a “smear campaign” led in part by pro-Israel supporters derailed Rep. Keith Ellison’s bid to be the next chair of the Democratic National Committee are false, according to retired Harvard law Professor Alan Dershowitz.

Pressed twice on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday whether he’d share his distribution list to help unite the Democratic Party, Sanders declined to commit. “Tom Perez not only supports the TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership], he also supports Keystone XL pipeline and the Dakota access pipeline”.

Unfortunately, former President Barack Obama didn’t see it that way, and actively campaigned for his former labor secretary, Tom Perez. “We can not walk out of here as Obama Democrats or Hillary Democrats or Bernie Democrats, we are a united Democratic Party, and that is who we are”. “His rewriting of US labor law is probably the most fundamental attack on the free-enterprise system going on at present”, Murray says. Jeanne Shaheen – has been active in New Hampshire Democratic politics for several decades. Democratic mandarins remain in a state of denial in which Clinton’s popular vote victory excuses her Electoral College loss and the overall deterioration of the party over the past eight years. They may support President Trump’s Democrat-worthy budget-busting call for a trillion dollars in infrastructure spending and the bad idea of import tariffs under the more pleasant name of a “border-adjustable tax”.

But Shaheen said he is confident Perez will be a first-in-the-nation supporter. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.

After his election Saturday, Perez headed off dissent by immediately naming Ellison vice-chairman, and Ellison took the microphone to plead with his supporters, saying: “We don’t have the luxury to walk out of this room divided”. “And we’ll see you again next year and the year after that, and I’ll be doing this with CPAC whenever I can, and I’ll make sure that we’re here a lot”.

Just five days before the election, delegates received a flurry of emails signed by Jews urging them to vote against Ellison because of his alleged anti-Israel and anti-Semitic positions. “Sanders’ wisdom and [former] President [Barack] Obama’s wisdom”, said Perez. The DNC chair said Trump’s speech was heavy on “immigrant baiting” and consisted of empty promises.

But some groups that had back Ellison say the outcome is “disappointing” and a “missed opportunity” for the party. Whether he will have a similar role with Perez as chairman and Ellison as deputy chairman remains is unclear. “I’m proposing that the DNC dramatically expand its voter protection efforts and scale a voter empowerment office that is fully funded and fully staffed with legal experts operating year round and integrated with the party’s regional, organizing, and digital staff”, Perez said in January.

“This turnout speaks to the reality that more and more Americans are becoming increasingly concerned about what’s happening in Washington today and are prepared to stand up and fight back in Kansas, Vermont and all over this country”, Sanders said.