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Harris attempted to both sides. Including over Israel and Palestinians and lost both constituencies. The democratic base view this as capitulation not fighting. There’s a large contingent of never Trump Republicans driving Democratic centrisim which is damaging turnout. @jenpsaki.bsky.social

Battle of the Big Ol' Dummies

She probably pays The Third Way folks for this guidance.

"both sides" is nails on chalkboard (dating myself) weapons-grade false equivalency Tsunami wave and kiddie pool wave are BOTH waves 🏆

Cowards. Tell the truth

After telling her potential voters that "both parties are bad and have extremists" she'll wonder why turnout was so poor, then conclude she didn't "tack to the center" sufficiently hard.

Also a massive turn-off for progressive voters. Actually, I guess you just said that! 😇 This is Gendebien's approach too (I'm in NY21). Makes me puke. Conventional wisdom can go jump in a lake.

midterms are not the right time for bothsidesism.

I would fully support her if I was in her district and I think the country should only vote democratic everywhere. At the same time, voters should be very vocal and clear about their expectations.

This is so important, doing the right thing matters, standing for justice and rule of law matters. This is our way out of the society wide corruption created by republicans

In addition to *misreading the electorate*, she paints herself as a “wet finger in the air” politician less reliable than a car dealer inflated wobbly sign.

It comes down to candidate quality and courage in the end. Democratic candidates have relied too heavily on consultants like Carville in the past whose perspective is stuck in the 20th century. Piker has a huge constituency like Rogan. He’s hated by politicians & the media, base voters love him.

Can’t wait to vote Lawler out in November

Yeah, NY-17 resident here who supported one of Cait’s opponents. You’re right that she’s misreading discomfort with the DSA wing of the party for centrist, both-sides gibberish. We want strident Democrats who will take the fight to T and push back on left-wing extremism too.

I often wonder how much the messaging in this race is shaped to appeal to the large ultra-orthodox population, who constitute a major voting bloc and whose politics tend toward an atypical blend of left/right planks. It's not unique to this district, but certainly unusual nationally.

well…. her district elected a republican 2 years ago, however slimly.. that gives a fairly good read of how popular AOC affiliation would be in her election.

tired of candidates who are either 1) stupid enough to genuinely believe this or 2) so politically inept that they think this is good strategy

Also the volume of PAC advertising against Conley is a strong indicator that Republicans see this as a seat they can hold against a weak challenger. They’ve clearly identified NY-17 as one of their best bets.

my anecdata supports this!

It's a no wisdom play

This is happening in Colorado Springs (CO5). The Democratic candidate is running ads saying'both parties in Washington are bad'. I'm voting for her over the Republican but I'm not thrilled about it.

It's also an unfounded, gutless, statement.

When they say stuff like this they should be asked for examples of the corruption they’re seeing.

Her riding a historically favorable wave to win a swing district is not a vindication of her brand of Democratic politics, unless you’re willing to say the same about El-Sayed if he wins

Probably difficult to suppress Democratic turnout this year but she’s having a good crack at it with talk like this. She’ll get washed into office in November, riding the blue wave, and she’ll be washed out again in the 2030 midterms if there’s a Democratic POTUS elected in 2028.

I meant she rails against lawler and trump every day.

It's a stupid play.

If you don’t say stuff like this, Dana bash won’t have you on her show.

She’s not a good person.

I live in her district and have been following it closely. It is not a misread whatsoever. Anti-Zionism left-wing extremism as a major major issue amongst the Jewish community here and we make up a large percentage of the voting population. 

Stupid thing to say

Gotta love the false equivalance. It can be tough deciding which is worse for some alleged brain havers. On the one side you have let the gym teacher look at your kids genitals in order to play sports, and the other side with their radical billionaires should have to pay their taxes. so hard

See Also, @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social's terrible ads saying he'll work with Trump. If anything, it's Twitter-brained consultants who are killing the party

These people are so dumb they are incapable of reading the Room

Misread, yeah. There’s corruption on both but republicans are way, WAY worse on it (very obviously.) dem corruption is mostly just insider trading iirc

A genuine measure of the breadth and depth of anti-Trump revulsion if Conley wins. She has no natural base, no signature issue, no political gifts and no campaign organization. Invest your time, energy and money elsewhere. And I take a backseat to no one in my loathing for Mike Lawler.

Ugh, whyyyyyyyy

I saw the same with Jane Castor adds in Tampa during college football games last night. She is trying to distance herself from the Democrats

The both sides thing is lame

She sure understood the primary electorate.... American elections are won in the center, which is where she is. If more Democrats would get over this faith-based belief that there is a secret progressive majority in this country, they would win far more elections and we'd not be in this mess.

“Both sides…” That’s hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Weak candidate watch

Some democrats don't know the enemy or their mission. Hope there aren't too many.

This is a pathetic take and you obviously didn’t watch the whole interview.

“Both sides” makes me insane.

Her nomination is one of the strongest examples of many Dems just not getting it to the point where her winning, unless she is somehow the tipping point district for control of the House, might not even be in the Dems best long term interests. I said what I said.

Another Fetterman