{"id":1571904,"date":"2022-07-26T14:52:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T18:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1571904"},"modified":"2022-07-26T14:52:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T18:52:34","slug":"democrat-campaign-chief-maloney-endorses-using-spoiler-candidates-in-tight-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-campaign-chief-maloney-endorses-using-spoiler-candidates-in-tight-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Campaign Chief Maloney Endorses Using Spoiler Candidates in Tight Elections"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fdemocrat-campaign-chief-maloney-endorses-using-spoiler-candidates-in-tight-elections%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=1571904&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>Democrat campaign leader\u00a0Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) on July 26 defended moves by strategists in his party to endorse \u201cspoiler candidates\u201d in GOP races to increase Democrats\u2019 odds of victory in tight races.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpoiler candidates\u201d refer to candidates thought to be unelectable or more difficult to elect in general elections due to positions they have that are perceived to be radical or too controversial.<\/p>\n<p>Maloney, who serves as chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), defended the practice in an early morning <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1551929168908148737\">July 26 appearance on MSNBC.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the appearance, the host recounted some efforts by Democrats in 2016 to propel then-candidate Donald Trump\u2019s presidential campaign, hoping that he would be easier for a Democrat to beat; this move blew up in Democrats\u2019 faces, however, after Trump glided to victory against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Citing apparent efforts by Democrats to do the same in tight congressional races this year, the host asked Maloney whether the DCCC was attempting to prop up \u201cfar-right\u201d candidates in the same way, in view of the dangers that 2016 unveiled in this strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Maloney left his answer ambiguous, saying that the DCCC considers it important to tread carefully in these efforts, but did not rule them out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a high bar for that,\u201d Maloney said. \u201cI think if you\u2019re going to do that, you need to really understand what you\u2019re doing, if you\u2019re talking about trying to pick your opponent. You might see us do that, sure, and I think sometimes it does make sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maloney\u2019s comments come amid a volatile political environment for Democrats, who have been placed on the defensive in the upcoming midterms due to dissatisfaction with President Joe Biden\u2019s performance during his first year in office\u2014particularly as inflation continues to break records and as gas remains around twice the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat campaign leader\u00a0Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) on July 26 defended moves by strategists in his party to endorse \u201cspoiler candidates\u201d in GOP races to increase Democrats\u2019 odds of victory in tight races. \u201cSpoiler candidates\u201d refer to candidates thought to be unelectable or more difficult to elect in general elections due to positions they have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"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-1571904","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\/1571904","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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1571904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571904\/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=1571904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}