Dems lost in N.C. just weeks after decapitating the DCCC's top staff for being too white
by David Freddoso
| September 11, 2019 12:43 PM
Last night, Democrats lost a very close House special election in North Carolina's ninth congressional district.
Dan McCready, a top-shelf Democratic candidate and Marine officer veteran who had nearly wrested the seat from Republicans in 2018, had been given a second bite at the apple thanks to a Republican consultant's illegal ballot harvesting during the 2018 election.
With that scandal still hanging in the air locally, and with Republicans nominating the author of the state's controversial ban on local gender ordinances (the so-called "bathroom bill"), the conditions seemed right for Democrats to pull off the victory.
Unfortunately for them, however, the Democratic organization responsible for this race -- the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee -- had its eye off the ball. Less than six weeks ago, after a nasty little fight between Democratic members of Congress, the DCCC's entire senior staff was abruptly purged for no reason other than it was perceived to be too white. And no, that's not a figure of speech or an exaggeration -- the senior staff chosen by DCCC Chairwoman Cheri Bustos, D-Ill., was forced out because they had been born as part of the wrong race.
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