{"id":1128505,"date":"2021-12-17T12:59:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T17:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1128505"},"modified":"2021-12-17T12:59:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T17:59:35","slug":"dems-in-disarray-vulnerable-members-slam-dccc-chairs-vanity-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-in-disarray-vulnerable-members-slam-dccc-chairs-vanity-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems in Disarray: Vulnerable Members Slam DCCC Chair\u2019s \u2018Vanity Project\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdems-in-disarray-vulnerable-members-slam-dccc-chairs-vanity-project%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1128505&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"30.386138613861\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Sean Patrick Maloney&#8217;s &#8216;leadership&#8217; marks &#8216;real f\u2014ing problem&#8217; for party in 2022, House Dems say<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-584261950_736x514.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-584261950_736x514.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-584261950_736x514-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-584261950_736x514-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tRep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D., N.Y.) \/ edited from Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 December 17, 2021 12:50 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"81.566990628254\">\n<p>Vulnerable House Democrats on Friday torched Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman Sean Patrick Maloney, accusing the so-called leader of running the group as a &#8220;vanity project&#8221; to raise &#8220;his own profile.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Six members in battleground districts spoke with <em>Politico<\/em> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2021\/12\/17\/this-is-a-real-f-ing-problem-495509\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slam Maloney<\/a>, who took over as head of House Democrats&#8217; campaign arm in 2021. According to the members, Maloney is &#8220;pushing the wrong strategy&#8221; and employing &#8220;botched messaging&#8221; by focusing on former president Donald Trump instead of the kitchen-table issues that resonate with voters. One House Democrat went as far as to say that Maloney&#8217;s performance as chairman marks a &#8220;real fucking problem&#8221; for the party in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Sean Patrick&#8217;s \u2018leadership&#8217;\u2014and please use air quotes on that\u2014at the DCCC is the reason why we should not have elected colleagues running that organization,&#8221; one member said. &#8220;Because it&#8217;s not about protecting the majority; it&#8217;s about Sean Patrick Maloney. \u2026 We&#8217;ve got a vanity project.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Maloney is supposed to protect and support vulnerable members as DCCC chairman, the New York Democrat has instead clashed with them throughout his tenure. In November, he <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/dccc-chair-dings-vulnerable-house-dem-defends-biden-after-virginia-loss\/\">rebuked<\/a> Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D., Va.) after the congresswoman criticized President Joe Biden&#8217;s agenda as overreaching and out of touch. Maloney&#8217;s decision to side with the president over a vulnerable incumbent came after Democrats suffered a string of shocking losses in Virginia, a state that Biden won by double digits in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Just months earlier, multiple centrist House Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/08\/20\/mods-dccc-fundraising-warning-506486\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused<\/a> Maloney of threatening to cut off financial support for their campaigns if they failed to back Biden&#8217;s then-$3.5 trillion social spending bill. Maloney&#8217;s staff also greenlit $5,000 wire transfers from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) to some vulnerable members, some of whom returned the money over fear of being associated with the socialist congresswoman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s problematic is not only is he pushing the wrong strategy. \u2026 The biggest problem is that he&#8217;s attacking front-line members for taking a different perspective,&#8221; another Democratic lawmaker told <em>Politico<\/em>. &#8220;If you want to win purple and red seats, you have to distance yourself from other Democrats. He is a part of this \u2018party purity&#8217; march that is just going to ensure that we are <em>DEEP<\/em> in the minority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his quarrels with fellow House Democrats, Maloney has committed multiple blunders unrelated to his role as DCCC chairman. In April, <em>Business Insider<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/congress-stocks-sean-patrick-maloney-rick-allen-2021-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that Maloney failed to disclose more than $11,000 in stock trades stemming from 2020. And in August, Maloney defied State Department guidelines to <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/maloney-french-scandal\/\">party maskless<\/a> at a billionaire&#8217;s estate in France. The DCCC paid $813 for an Air France plane ticket weeks before the trip.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Sean Patrick Maloney&#8217;s &#8216;leadership&#8217; marks &#8216;real f\u2014ing problem&#8217; for party in 2022, House Dems say  Rep. 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