Progressive & Moderate Democrats Spar
The House of Representatives reconvened Monday for the first time since October 2nd, as moderate and progressive wings of the Democratic caucus looked to move on from a series of electoral losses that narrowed Democrats’ path to a Senate majority and will leave Democrats with a smaller House majority when the 117th Congress convenes next year. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) sent a letter to Democrats urging unity after infighting and finger-pointing between the polar wings of the party over responsibility for the losses on a leaked caucus call spilled over into a public feud.
Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), a moderate Blue Dog Democrat from a district that Republicans had held since 1971 prior to her flipping it in 2018, blamed progressives’ rhetoric about efforts to “defund the police” and push socialist policies as endangering moderate Democrats in competitive districts like hers.Â
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) ― a member of Democratic Socialists of America and member of the progressive “squad” ― accused her moderate colleagues of only being interested in appealing to white people in the suburbs and said, “To be real, it sounds like you are saying stop pushing for what Black folks want.”
Should Dems embrace defunding the police and socialist policies?
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