The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is urging candidates to embrace a new strategy ahead of the midterms: lean into democracy.
New internal polling, recently released by the DCCC and first reported by Axios, suggests that Democratic candidates go easy on the whole #Resistance business and consider working with the Trump administration. Anyone running for re-election in a swing district, the poll found, “must express a willingness to work with the president when his agenda might help the district.”
Reminders to be bipartisan aren’t unusual. Reminders to do your duty, to do what will help better the lives of your constituents, are. Elected office is always referred to as a service because — big shocker — in a representative government, the elected work for the express benefit of the represented.
The DCCC follows up with another pro tip: Candidates should “not appear out of sync with what people believe about the economy.” That appears to put the campaign organization at odds with what House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is encouraging her troops to do, at least in public.
One would hope all politicians would know as much. The premise of our constitutional republic, after all, is that good government is good politics.
