Axios - Democratic congressional candidates nationwide, feeding off voter fury, are raging against their leadership and vowing ruthlessness against their own establishment....
Axios interviewed dozens of Democratic congressional candidates — some challenging longtime Democratic incumbents, others running in open primaries in blue or purple seats.
- What was consistent across many of those interviews was a notion that the Democratic party establishment hasn't met the moment since President Trump returned.
That echoes what Democratic elected officials have heard from their constituents, particularly their liberal grassroots, for the last nine months.
- And it signals a headache ahead for Democratic leadership, which may have to grapple with its own version of the Tea Party wave that wreaked havoc on GOP leadership.
Dozens of Democratic candidates for U.S. House are refusing to commit — or outright declining — to vote for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) as speaker or leader.
- Many of the leading Democratic candidates in key battleground primaries are Jeffries loyalists or recruits. But it may only take a handful of renegades to frustrate leadership if he wins a small majority next year.
The nearly dozen House Democrats retiring or seeking higher office this cycle have left a slew of crowded Democratic primaries in their wake that leadership will have difficulty controlling. Share this story.
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