With frustration with their party’s response to President Trump, Democrats in safe blue areas challenge before the renewal elections next year.
Lauren Fryer, host:
Many members of Congress do not face competitive primary elections, but as NPR reports from NPR, which may change next year.
Elena Moore, Byline: throughout the country, a growing group of Democrats is launched in the 1920s and thirties of age campaigns for Congress, and their ads have a common topic.
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George Hornido: These Democrats do not do that? It is time for the leadership that puts people first.
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Jake Rakov: Democrats in Washington need the spine, courage, innovation, and yes, some of the abdomen.
Moore: Their goal – to cancel the occupancy of democratic positions in the House of Representatives and replace them with new voices. Jake Rakov of California is one of these candidates. The 37 -year -old strategic expert is nominated to represent the 32nd Congress region in the state, which is part of Los Angeles Province. He challenges Brad Sherman, who worked in the 15th term, in which Rakov worked in 2017.
Rakov: It is nothing in the afternoon. I think it has become the time just because the people who were there for a long time were now in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. I would like to go back and ask him at the age of forty. Do you think you will continue to do it in 70? I would like to hear this answer because – frankly, I don’t think it will say yes.
Moore: Rakov says that the millennium and General Zires see the future differently from the older generations. It says it is a global view that has been born from many events that identified their early lives for adults. For Rakov, the college remembers the graduate in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
Rakov: If this is a kind of my experience, when I am in Congress, I will legislate with this mind’s point of view.
Moore: Many of his main policies are also designed to draw the contrast with his former boss. He pledges to hold the personal city halls every month, and says that Sherman was not active enough in the region, although Congress member says he has more than 200 municipal halls during a period of nearly 30 years. Rakov also calls for the limits of the period, and members of the House of Representatives are crowned in 10 years.
Rakov: We will never change anything if we do not change those we send to the capital, and if we are not able to hold honest conversations with ourselves as a party in our safer seats, how do we expect that conversation with voters in the swing areas?
Moore: George Hornido, 35, pays a similar message.
Hornido: We need to get rid of this loyalty to ancient concepts such as occupancy and seniority, and we need to think about how to raise the best candidates.
Moore: Horneido has made skills in the Obama and Betty Pots Ferstone for the year 2020. He is now challenging André Carson for the seventh Congress region in Indiana. Carson has occupied the seat since 2008, but Hornido says he has been mocked for a long time. It indicates that Carson has repeatedly left behind for most of his Democratic colleagues in obtaining legislation, including in recent years as Democrats have been a majority in the House of Representatives.
Hornido: This society does not care about the legacy. This society is looking for work.
Moore: Congress member defends his time in his position and says he returned more than a billion dollars to the region. But with the biography of both national policy and local organization, Horndo says he is right to this position.
Amanda Litman: We know that there is an appetite for the new leadership. Voters will have a chance to choose.
Moore: Amanda Litman is the founder of Run for Something, a group that helps democratic candidates for the first time to run for the state and local positions. It supports new candidates who lead the current Democrats, but also has a warning word.
Litman: Facing the current national team official is a truly great task. That is why most people do not, because it is almost impossible.
Moore: She says that these legislators usually have a leg, from accessing large donations collection networks and the pulpit of fatwa for more practice. There were exceptions, as in 2018, when a member of Congress in New York Alexandria Oakassio Cortez launched a major disorder. So this is possible. But Litman says, for all AOC, there were dozens of candidates who were unable to remove the job operator.
Elena Moore, NPR news.
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