The wave of congressional Democrats heading for the exits has set alarm bells ringing in the party as it tries to retain its narrow congressional majorities in this year's midterm elections.
for the party’s prospects in the November midterms, since they will lose the power of incumbency in those districts.
“Everyone is too afraid to run as a House Democrat because they know their caucus is about to see mass layoffs this November,” said Calvin Moore, the spokesperson for the conservative Congressional Leadership Fund, a major GOP super PAC., so they will likely be replaced by other Democrats — the real uncertainty is which kind.
Mitchell, whose group prides itself on supporting candidates in municipal and state legislative races as a way to build a pipeline of progressive candidates, said leftist candidates often have difficulty overcoming the power of established incumbents and winning higher office. For every Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was elected to represent New York's 14th District after taking took down a powerful 20-year congressional veteran in 2018 — there are many more failed insurgent candidates and dozens more would-be candidates who don’t bother running.about 90 percent
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