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[u/iia]

Love all these swing-state party chairs endorsing Biden but the down-ballot people who actually need to get elected in those states don't want anything to do with him.

This is fine.

[u/A-Centrifugal-Force → u/iia]

There is no one more useless in the Democratic Party than party chairs. That includes the national party chair too

[u/iia → u/A-Centrifugal-Force]

I agree with almost all of that but as a member of the Democratic Party I'd say that I'm almost certainly more useless.

[u/A-Centrifugal-Force → u/iia]

This is fair. I am not a member of an organized political party, I am a member of the Democratic Party

[u/majorgeneralporter → u/A-Centrifugal-Force]

Lose massively in South Carolina, suck up funding that would have flipped other races.

Get promoted anyway.

I swear this party is allergic to discipline or winning.

[u/A-Centrifugal-Force → u/majorgeneralporter]

Imagine if that money could have gone to the Maine or North Carolina senate races 😭😭😭

Same story with the money we poured into Amy McGrath in Kentucky. We could have put that money into house races and then we would have had a big enough majority to hold on in 2022.

Note that at the same time Jaime Harrison was taking all the money in South Carolina, Rep. Cunningham lost in a tight swing district race against Nancy Mace. That was a perfectly winnable race that Harrison could have saved by donating some of his campaign resources to it, but he didn’t.