DCCC Under Fire for Attempting to Undermine a Progressive Candidate

Congressman Ben Ray Luján’s (D-NM) DCCC has come under fire for reportedly attempting to undermine candidates. In PA, establishment Dems allegedly pressured Greg Edwards (pictured), a Black Pastor running in the state’s 7th Congressional District, to exit the race. Edwards and progressive groups told WaPo that the DCCC approached local Democrats to ask if they thought the Pastor could be persuaded to seek another office. “As far as I know, they only targeted one candidate to leave this race — the most progressive candidate, the only candidate of color,” Edwards said. “Their inability to understand why that’s fundamentally wrong says everything.” The DCCC said that the inquiries were part of a general outreach effort as a result of the recently redrawn congressional district map in PA. This comes as the DCCC is facing criticism from the left after it published opposition research against Laura Moser, a progressive Democrat running in Texas’ 7th Congressional District, which hit her for everything from employing her husband’s political firm to moving to the state just to run when she’d previously written that she’d “rather have my teeth pulled out without anesthesia” than live in Texas. And just last month, Quentin James of the Collective PAC questioned the DCCC on their lack of support for Black candidates. More here.