The Democrats had a conference call today, and it was spectacularly filled with strife. And even more delightfully, when they realized reporters were, like, REPORTING on the call, they had a total MELTDOWN and demanded to know who the LEAKERS were.
Fantastic.
A thread from WaPo’s Erica Werner kind of says it all. Has some of the best parts, but that’s not ALL there is. Keep reading.
Spanberger on the Dem caucus call: We lost races we shouldn’t have lost.
Defund police almost cost me my race bc of an attack ad.
Don’t say socialism ever again.
Need to get back to basics.
(Is yelling.)— Erica Werner (@ericawerner) November 5, 2020
“Don’t say socialism ever again” is just awesome. As Jon Gabriel (@ExJon) said, this thread “sparks joy.”
That’s VA congresswoman Abigail Spanberger she’s referring to there, who is barely ahead and not yet declared winner in her race. She was TICKED.
If we run this race again we will get fucking torn apart again in 2022, Spanberger says
— Erica Werner (@ericawerner) November 5, 2020
Pelosi in a fantasy world thinking they have a mandate is also pretty funny.
We have a mandate! Pelosi says before getting off the call
— Erica Werner (@ericawerner) November 5, 2020
There was literally crying.
Also earlier in the call Debbie Mucarsel-Powell who lost her race was crying , and mentioned how people can’t pronounce her name, and said stop being negative on Twitter
— Erica Werner (@ericawerner) November 5, 2020
And attacks on the press.
Jeffries comes back on to tell people to stop leaking and that reporters aren’t your friends! 😢
— Erica Werner (@ericawerner) November 5, 2020
Jayapal is telling Jeffries to find the leakers! 🤐
— Erica Werner (@ericawerner) November 5, 2020
Seriously, they were super mad about reporters reporting.
Some of my colleagues are literally live-leaking our internal Dem Caucus call right now to CNN, The Hill, NBC, Politico, etc. I've gotten texts from 3 different reporters asking me to live-leak juicy details to them. No. We (Dems and the media) need to stop this nonsense.
— Rep. Jared Huffman (@JaredHuffman) November 5, 2020
There was mad backstabbing!
It just keeps going as Pascrell now calling out Schumer.
Pelosi’s done an amazing job … but where’s Schumer in all of this? Says Pelosi has one hand tied behind her back— Erica Werner (@ericawerner) November 5, 2020
Rashida Tlaib saying before we make painful statements we need to wait and see how the numbers come down, feels like I’m being asked to be quiet and we need to appeal to certain people, and that’s not right
— Erica Werner (@ericawerner) November 5, 2020
The common theme was that the Squad’s priorities screwed everyone else.
>@WhipClyburn on Dem caucus call, per @heatherscope and @sarahnferris
"If 'we are going to run on Medicare for All, defund the police, socialized medicine, we're not going to win’” GA sen races.https://t.co/WXR4P1mLpY
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) November 5, 2020
And they are FURIOUS about it.
DCCC Chair Bustos tells House Democrats, per person on the call: "I’m furious. Something went wrong here across the entire political world."
— Bridget Bowman (@bridgetbhc) November 5, 2020
Bustos, continued: "Our polls, Senate polls, Gov polls, Presidential polls, Republican polls, public polls, turnout modeling, and prognosticators all pointed to one political environment – that environment never materialized."
Says she's confident Dems will pick up #GA07
— Bridget Bowman (@bridgetbhc) November 5, 2020
It is a thing of beauty.