WaPo:
Hillary: "We are going to win back the House and the Senate"
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton told House Democrats on Wednesday that she is planning a 50-state strategy to help Democrats win the presidency and regain control of Congress.
“We are going to win this election,” Clinton said after meeting with House Democrats for nearly an hour. “We are going to take back the House and the Senate.”
Hillary's aim is to win back both the Senate and the House. That's what her 50 state strategy is all about. We can achieve both goals in this historic election.
outside of traditional battleground states like Ohio and Virginia in hopes of luring support from voters who have been turned off by Donald Trump, according to Democratic lawmakers who attended the closed-door session on Capitol Hill. She also said she plans to unite factions of the party that previously backed Sen. Bernie Sanders, who waged a fierce primary challenge against her.
An expanded map that includes heavy courting of voters in GOP states like Arizona and Georgia, even Texas.
Democratic Platform Committee Chair Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) told reporters that the full committee will meet Friday in St. Louis, Mo., in hopes of hammering out any remaining differences with the Sanders camp. He said he was optimistic that the party can easily mend fences ahead of the convention.
“We are going to be trying to meld the positions of Sen. Clinton and Bernie Sanders,” Cummings said after the meeting. “It seems as if we are going to be able to reach an agreement — hopefully by Saturday afternoon.”
Cummings, who chairs the platform committee, talks with confidence that the platform meetings will result in an agreement between the Hillary side and the Bernie side by Saturday afternoon. If he is right we can finally move on to fighting Trump with a united voice.