{"id":26483,"date":"2021-11-10T09:54:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T09:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=26483"},"modified":"2021-11-10T09:54:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T09:54:58","slug":"progressive-coalition-retools-ahead-of-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=26483","title":{"rendered":"Progressive coalition retools ahead of 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Politics<\/p>\n

The Center for Popular Democracy, a nationwide alliance of progressive groups, is retooling for the 2022 midterm cycle with a new leadership team and a pledge to spend more than $4 million on next year\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n

Analilia Mejia, Sen. Bernie Sanders\u2019 former national political director, and DaMareo Cooper, BlackPAC\u2019s previous national organizing director, will be co-executive directors of the organization.<\/p>\n

Mejia and Cooper said their strategy to win Senate and gubernatorial races next year, which are expected to be an uphill climb for the Democratic Party, is to prioritize the progressive base, particularly Black, Latino, immigrant and working-class voters. They are setting a goal of boosting their membership, which they said now includes more than 500,000 people, to 1 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re trying to save the Democratic Party from itself,\u201d said Mejia. \u201cPivoting right to the center has failed the Democratic Party, leaving the base unmotivated, unspoken to, unorganized. The game will be won by doing the exact opposite. This is about going door by door, state by state, to mobilize the base. That\u2019s what CPD does.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the years following former President Donald Trump\u2019s election, Democrats vigorously debated whether they should focus on exciting the party base or persuading swing voters. The conversation was often contentious: Democrat David Shor, a data scientist, has said<\/a> that the idea that boosting turnout, not flipping voters, was the key to President Joe Biden\u2019s victory is \u201cthe closest thing to flat Earther-ism in politics.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fact that the Center for Popular Democracy, a large and powerful organization on the left that serves as a network for 48 groups, is pledging to continue pursuing a base-first strategy underscores that progressives are sticking to their guns in 2022 despite this month\u2019s election losses. Both establishment Democratic figures such as former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, as well as left-wing campaigns in Seattle, Minneapolis and Buffalo, N.Y., fell short in last Tuesday\u2019s races.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m from Ohio. I don\u2019t know this mythical suburban swing voter. I don\u2019t actually know that person. I don\u2019t know if that person even really exists. I think our job and our work is to strengthen our base. It is common sense, right? Take care of what\u2019s happening in your house first,\u201d said Cooper.<\/p>\n

The Center for Popular Democracy would not say which states it plans to invest in next year, but it has partners in the battlegrounds including Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Hampshire, Nevada, Wisconsin and Ohio.<\/p>\n

While working on Sanders\u2019 2020 campaign, Mejia helped secure an endorsement for the Vermont senator from the Center for Popular Democracy. <\/p>\n

Both Sanders and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, threw their weight behind the new heads of the Center for Popular Democracy.<\/p>\n

Sanders said in a statement that “at a time of massive wealth and income inequality and when the top 1 percent are doing phenomenally well, we need a powerful grassroots progressive movement to take on the corruption of the political and economic establishment,\u201d and \u201cAnalilia understands that battle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jayapal added, \u201cI look forward to continuing to fight alongside CDP’s members and leaders \u2014 including Analilia Mejia and DaMareo Cooper \u2014 in the months ahead as we deliver on our promises to pass policies that allow people to wake up feeling a real difference in their lives and the opportunities their families have.\u201d<\/p>\n

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