Democratic lawmakers sound off on the party's presidential free-for-all — and the dilution of their own power to choose a nominee
Tom Perez isn’t facing blowback only over his management of his party’s unruly presidential primary field. He also has 280 constituents in Congress, some of whom are sounding off publicly.
Connolly’s irritation with party headquarters is more pointed than most but shared by a significant bloc of Democrats, according to interviews with more than a dozen House and Senate lawmakers, some of whom serve in party leadership or are close to party leaders. Several lawmakers said they felt shunned by the DNC and fret the party is headed toward a brutal election cycle with serious divisions over the best way to oust President Donald Trump.
“It’s got to be the biggest nightmare Perez ever possibly imagined,” said Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin . Of the juggling act to determine which of the two dozen candidates qualified for the first debates, Durbin added: “I don’t think there’s any way to handle this well … at the end of it, I can bet that half of those [candidates] will be unhappy.”
Not far from anyone’s mind, of course, is the unceremonious ouster of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The Florida lawmaker was pushed out ahead of the 2016 Democratic convention, a move orchestrated by many members of Congress. There is no similar desire to oust Perez at this point; in fact, many Democrats said they’re sympathetic to his plight.
But that doesn’t mean they aren’t worried, or that Perez is off the hook. Concern in the party falls into three categories: The culling of the field via polling and fundraising requirements; the refusal to dedicate a debate to the topic of climate change, an idea endorsed by many Democratic lawmakers; and theWith superdelegates now holding less sway over the nominee, the power of their endorsements dropped correspondingly.
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