{"id":1362724,"date":"2022-03-07T13:54:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T18:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1362724"},"modified":"2022-03-07T13:54:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T18:54:46","slug":"democrats-find-midterm-strategy-after-months-of-no-direction-save-democrat-governors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-find-midterm-strategy-after-months-of-no-direction-save-democrat-governors\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Find Midterm Strategy After Months of No Direction: Save Democrat Governors"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fdemocrats-find-midterm-strategy-after-months-of-no-direction-save-democrat-governors%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=1362724&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 class=\"subheading\">Nearly three months into the midterm election year, Democrat\u00a0operatives appeared to have narrowed in on a midterm strategy: saving Democrat governors in \u201ccritical battleground\u201d states in November.<\/p>\n<p>As the primary election season for the upcoming midterm elections has already started as of last Tuesday, a\u00a0<em>Politico<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/03\/06\/democratic-party-priority-save-governors-00014364\">article<\/a> indicated that Democrat operatives have finally told their donors what they want the midterm strategy to be, which is to protect their governors. The operatives, according to\u00a0<em>Politico,<\/em>\u00a0have started to worry about the possibility of losing Democrat governors in \u201ccritical battleground\u201d states.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats are expanding their scope far beyond congressional contests and on to governor races in battleground states, seeing them as existential for the party\u2019s presidential prospects, if not democratic governance itself,\u201d the report said. It noted that Democrat party leaders,\u00a0donors, and leading super PACs were already ready to\u00a0prioritize the\u00a0gubernatorial races.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>However, the focus on governors has \u201cintensified\u201d after <em>Politico<\/em> argued that Republicans tried to overturn the election and\u00a0the Democrats\u2019 election takeover bills <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/18\/democrats-did-the-best-we-could-on-election-takeover-as-bills-poised-to-fail\/\">failed<\/a> in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper Teboe, a donor adviser based in Silicon Valley, told\u00a0<em>Politico<\/em> he\u2019s \u201cseen a real shift\u201d among the donor class turning\u00a0away from the\u00a0DNC and the DCCC and started to put their money behind governors: \u201cI\u2019d say 50 to 60 percent of them are now putting that same effort into governors, and I expect that group of donors to only grow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This has started to happen in crucial battleground states, such as\u00a0Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan \u2014 all states where President Joe Biden barely beat out former President Donald Trump \u2014 with the money also starting to seep into the secretary of state and attorney general races, the report noted. Seeing a push from donors has the potential of helping\u00a0long-shot candidates for the state positions instead of backing\u00a0candidates for the House and Senate.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19609058\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19609058\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Nancy-P-worried.jpg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 9: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks during a news conference about the Protecting Our Democracy Act on Capitol Hill December 9, 2021 in Washington, DC. On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed the Protecting Our Democracy Act, a package of reforms including new limitations on presidential powers and protecting elections from foreign interference.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks during a news conference about the Protecting Our Democracy Act on Capitol Hill December 9, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Politico<\/em> added that some of the push to\u00a0prioritize the\u00a0gubernatorial races come from the\u00a0Democrat operatives acknowledging that they will lose the House after the midterms and see a federal realignment happen:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Democrats contend that they can prioritize governor\u2019s offices as well as the races for state elections chiefs without it coming at the expense of Senate and House contests. But quietly, some in the party view the increased focus on governor contests as at least a tacit acknowledgement that they\u2019re unlikely to keep control of the House in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst donors, \u201cthere\u2019s a real pessimism\u201d for \u201cthe federal outlook in 2022,\u201d said one New York-based Democratic donor adviser. A Washington, D.C.-based bundler said that \u201c\u2018save the House\u2019 messaging is not working on high-level donors because no one believes it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Overshadowing all these considerations is the party\u2019s failure to pass voting rights legislation this past year. Without legislative action, Democrats are hoping that governors can serve as a blockade of sorts on GOP-led laws to further dial back pandemic-era voting expansions, restrict voting access and curtail particulation in future elections.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>With donors also having a helping hand in the governors\u2019 races, they also feel out the possibility of 2024 presidential nominees if Biden does not run for another term, or at the very least \u201cthe next generation of Democratic leadership,\u201d as\u00a0a New York Democrat donor said to <em>Politico<\/em>, floating the possibility of\u00a0North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper or Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.<\/p>\n<p><i>Jacob Bliss is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jacobmbliss\"><i>Twitter<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly three months into the midterm election year, Democrat\u00a0operatives appeared to have narrowed in on a midterm strategy: saving Democrat governors in \u201ccritical battleground\u201d states in November. 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