The usual Beltway stupidity from the RNC bashes the DNC’s leadership and message.
Given the now routine WH stupidity and GOP dismay as Agent Orange stares into the Sun, there should be better news about DNC fundraising.
Now that Trumpism is being beaten back, there should be even large and small donor interest as 2018 approaches.
Tom Perez has been chairman of the Democratic National Committee for about six months. During that brief tenure, the committee has accounted for three of its 14 worst monthly fundraising reports since Barack Obama was elected president. And its latest month was its worst since Obama was inaugurated more than eight years ago.
The DNC has had problems for years, often badly lagging behind the Republican National Committee in fundraising and struggling under the uneven leadership of Debbie Wasserman Schultz until her ouster last year.
But even by its own standards, the start of 2017 has been bad.
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On top of Perez's ill-advised comments about how Democrats had to support abortion rights a few months ago — something other Democratic leaders quickly rebuffed — it suggests the DNC hasn't really righted the ship after Wasserman Schultz's rocky tenure.