If press access is any predictor to how the night is going to go, things aren’t looking good for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Their all stars — Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and DCCC head Chris Van Hollen — briefly spoke at the DCCC event at the Liaison Capitol Hill, but were kept as far away from questions and inquiring journalists as possible.
The media was first herded into a filing room, away from party guests, and then chaperoned into the ballroom packed with supporters. (Yeas & Nays wasn’t even allowed to use the ladies room). Pelosi excused the brief appearance on having more work to do.
“Many of us have to get back on the phones to encourage people to vote,” she told the crowd, who gave the Speaker a warm welcome.
Afterward, reporters were kept huddled on the risers while Pelosi, Hoyer and Van Hollen scurried away. “We are being held so we can’t talk to Members,” one reporter called out to a Pelosi staffer.
Said staffer just laughed.
