{"id":1200038,"date":"2022-01-08T15:04:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T20:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1200038"},"modified":"2022-01-08T15:05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T20:05:00","slug":"dems-in-tough-elections-ignore-pelosis-push-to-tout-bbb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-in-tough-elections-ignore-pelosis-push-to-tout-bbb\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems In Tough Elections Ignore Pelosi\u2019s Push To Tout BBB"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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-tough-elections-ignore-pelosis-push-to-tout-bbb%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=1200038&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--><p>As congressional Democrats struggle to breathe new life into their stalled legislative agenda, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi earlier this week told \u201cVIP\u201d donors on a leaked private phone call that all party members need to brag about the House-passed version of the Build Back Better bill even as she cautioned her colleagues not to describe the multitrillion-dollar spending measure\u2019s impact as too sweeping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, this is transformative. But people tell me, don\u2019t use the word \u2018transformative.\u2019 Just say it lowers costs,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10368449\/Nancy-Pelosi-tells-donors-Democrats-need-boastful-Bidens-accomplishments.html\">told supporters on the call<\/a>. \u201cIt lowers costs for health care \u2014 costs for families across America; it lowers cost of child care; it enables so much more to happen. So, we\u2019re very, very proud of the legislation. Now we just have to get it passed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a message that Democratic leaders have been unsuccessfully pushing for months amid Senate gridlock on the \u201chuman infrastructure\u201d bill they view as companion legislation to the $1.2 trillion traditional infrastructure measure enacted in November.<\/p>\n<p>Recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/01\/04\/cnbc-and-change-research-the-biden-economy-poll-president-biden-receives-low-rating-among-voters-as-his-presidency-approaches-its-one-year-mark.html\">polls,<\/a> however, show that the flagging economy is the top priority for the majority of Americans who worry that President Biden\u2019s agenda will continue stoking inflation \u2013 one of the main reasons why key Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin opposes Build Back Better. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/01\/04\/cnbc-and-change-research-the-biden-economy-poll-president-biden-receives-low-rating-among-voters-as-his-presidency-approaches-its-one-year-mark.html\">CNBC Change Research survey<\/a> released this week found that a whopping 73% of voters believe the economy is in \u201cpoor\u201d or \u201cnot so good shape,\u201d and 60% disapprove of Biden\u2019s economic record.<\/p>\n<p>In light of those numbers, there\u2019s little wonder why some Democrats in tough election battles this year aren\u2019t heeding Pelosi\u2019s call to sing the praises of progressives\u2019 vast social spending measure. With the party facing serious headwinds in the November midterms, five Democratic House challengers have been noticeably mum about their position on BBB, failing to publicly tout Biden\u2019s top legislative priority, with no mentions of it on their otherwise active social media sites.<\/p>\n<p>Christina Bohannan, a Democratic state legislator from Iowa City who is running in her state\u2019s newly drawn 1st Congressional District, is one example. Although the Iowa Democratic Party has been vigorously promoting Build Back Better, Bohannan has been conspicuously silent on the measure to the point of not even mentioning it on her Twitter account. She didn\u2019t return repeated requests from RealClearPolitics to say whether she supports the bill. Instead of promoting her party\u2019s top legislative priority, in December Bohannan tweeted about her endorsements, nursing shortages across Iowa, severe weather and her recent comments on education and abortion issues.<\/p>\n<p>Several other Democratic challengers in highly competitive races have been similarly reticent even as progressives from safe seats, such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders, have spent weeks railing against Manchin for backing away from the measure after pledging to work with Biden to negotiate a compromise.<\/p>\n<p>Nebraska state Sen. Tony Vargas, one of two Democratic challengers to Republican Rep. Don Bacon, as well as Yadira Caraveo, a Colorado pediatrician and state legislator, also have not wholeheartedly backed the BBB bill on social media or elsewhere. Neither candidate responded to RCP requests to state their position on it.<\/p>\n<p>Even in a blue California district, a Democratic state legislator challenging Republican Rep. David Valadao has been muted in his public comments about Build Back Better. Republicans scouring Rudy Salas Jr.\u2019s record on the subject did unearth a puckish reference to \u201cBBB\u201d on Twitter more than a decade ago, right before he ran for the open state assembly seat Valadao left behind, but it wasn\u2019t about infrastructure spending of any type.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt St. Francis for the BBB (Bible, BBQ, Beer) meeting this evening. Always good to be grounded,\u201d he tweeted in April 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, Liz Mathis, an Iowa state senator who is running against incumbent Republican Rep. Ashley Hinson, has only one BBB Twitter reference, and it dates back to 2013. Mathis tweeted out a photo from a fundraiser event for Bruce Braley, a former Democratic congressman who ran a losing campaign for Senate against Joni Ernst in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBBB (Braley Backyard Bash) fundraiser for @BruceBraley,\u201d she tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of promoting passage of the social spending bill, Mathis on New Year\u2019s Eve acknowledged that 2021 has been \u201ca hard year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe insurrection at the capitol on 1\/6, the COVID crisis, and challenges facing the economy have all made certain that this campaign couldn\u2019t be more important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mathis did include a description of the Build Back Better measure in a newsletter her state Senate office released in late November. The BBB section appears under the heading \u201cFederal Initiatives Invest in Iowa\u201d and is listed after news of a state roundtable examining a teacher shortage.<\/p>\n<p>The brief overview of the bill argues that it \u201caddresses long-neglected needs,\u201d touting provisions for paid family leave, caps on monthly insulin costs and Democratic claims that the measure would lower child care costs. In late October, however, the White House dropped any form of paid family leave from its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As congressional Democrats struggle to breathe new life into their stalled legislative agenda, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi earlier this week told \u201cVIP\u201d donors on a leaked private phone call that all party members need to brag about the House-passed version of the Build Back Better bill even as she cautioned her colleagues not to describe &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}