You hit the nail on the head @trumpdog and @valgalky23 Please don’t be fooled by this non-issue, @imkmu3.
The original Politico story is amazingly bogus. In its lede, it nonsensically asserts that Democrats are “frustrated” over a high-profile effort by one of the most popular women in America that’s sure to get more young people and minorities to the polls. In the next 20 or so paragraphs, the writer fails to back that claim up with a single quote from a single source — neither on nor off the record.
Maybe, there was some irrelevant someone who drunkenly mentioned this concern to a reporter. Maybe the editor just added the line to the lede to give it that distinctive Politico spin. Whatever. But all the actual evidence presented in the story demonstrates widespread enthusiasm for her effort. Then, TPM amplifies Politico’s unsubstantiated lede by placing “fret” in its own headline.
This is how the false “Democrats in disarray” narrative lives on despite: record-setting fundraising, an endless stream of good polls, a widening generic ballot advantage, a great deal of unity on progressive ideas, and the deepest field of high-quality challengers that we’ve seen in any of our lifetimes (and if you actually look at the contests you’ll see that am not exaggerating).
We are doing very, very well. The question at this point is what we can do to protect and extend our lead (we need to win the Senate in addition to the House). The answer is to do whatever we can to keep that discord bubbling among the GOP, and to do everything we can to unify our side around things like GOTV and strategic candidate contributions.
