Decmocrats divided over effort to promote election denier in Michigan Republican primary
In Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee,ahead of the Republican primary boosting Doug Mastriano, a fringe lawmaker who was one of Trump’s closest allies in efforts to overturn the election. Mastriano won the nomination. If elected, he would appoint the top election official in Pennsylvania.
Sean Patrick Maloney, a New York congressman who leads the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee , the group responsible for electing House Democrats, did not dispute that there were instances where the party might try to engineer a more favorable opponent.. “I think if you’re gonna do that you really need to understand what you’re doing. If you’re talking about trying to pick your opponent, you might see us do that, sure.
Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat on the January 6 committee, said there was nuance in considering whether to boost election deniers. While he said he understood the argument that it was “categorically wrong” to boost election deniers, he also made a case for why it was appropriate to intervene. “In the real world of politics, one can also see an argument that if the pro-insurrectionist, election-denier wing of the Republican caucus is already dominant, then it might be worth it to take a small risk that another one of those people would be elected, in return for dramatically increasing the chances that Democrats will be able to hold the House against a pro-insurrectionist, election-denying GOP majority,”But Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, Raskin’s Republican colleague on the January 6...
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