Denial
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) fired back Sunday afternoon at a New York Times story that said party leaders were planning a "brutal triage of their own members in hopes of saving enough seats to keep a slim grip on the majority." Van Hollen released a statement saying that the story "erroneously" said that the DCCC would redirect resources to two dozen viable campaigns if a review in the next two weeks showed that vulnerables weren't gaining ground. -- The Hill
Of the Times story, Jay Cost reminds us that "[t]his kind of "incumbent party makes hard choices" story is inevitable in a year like this, but it is really something to see it come out in early September. Sizeable numbers of incumbent Democrats lack a "path to victory," even this far out?" It's the kind of story that any party leader in Van Hollen's position would instinctively deny. But that's not the kind of denial that's really killing the Dems these days.
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