This is wild. One day after insurgent @NidaAllam lost by ~1,020 votes in NC04, after millions of dollars from AIPAC and AI were spent against her, the PAC that @AOC organized to back insurgent candidates, called Courage to Change, sent out a fundraising email talking about how hard it is for such insurgents to run when billionaires are coming after them.
That’s true! Except AOC did *not* back Allam, even though Bernie Sanders and Justice Democrats did, and Bernie even rallied with her in NC.
A nod from AOC could well have been worth 1,000 votes.
Nobody on staff, including the boss, apparently thought to say, well, the entire progressive movement except for us got behind Nida Allam and she just lost by a crushingly small margin to AIPAC and AI, so maybe let’s not fundraise today on the idea that we are the ones who are going to be in the streets backing insurgents.
The timing is a mistake, obviously, but it also suggests she and they were paying basically no attention to a race that had otherwise captivated people. Otherwise they’d have caught the mistake.
Squad Victory Fund, which is all 4 of them, also put out a pretty tone deaf email but not nearly as bad
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