Not even President Trump’s widely condemned tweets this weekend put a halt to the infighting between the establishment and progressive wings of the Democratic Party.
On Monday, anonymous “top Democrats” selectively leaked internal polling data showing progressive freshmen Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., are unpopular with white “likely general-election” Democratic voters have two years or less of a college education. At the same time, progressive Democrats have used the president’s tweets as an opportunity to disregard and even challenge House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s leadership, leaving the California representative, who they see as too moderate, in the position of having to once again rein in increasingly rebellious caucus members.
