In this edition: Democratic pledge fatigue, the Kavanaugh wars return in Wisconsin, and the DCCC gets tough.
scores of donations of more than $200 from people employed in the industry, leading him to be removed from their list of pledge takers.
“To say you’re not going to take money from executives of industries? We’re not going to go there,” Hickenlooper said. “We’ve demonstrated pretty clearly that we’re not in anybody’s hip pocket. In Colorado, we’re the ones who got the oil and gas industry to address fugitive carbon emissions. We got them to pay more than people ever dreamed they would.”
In recent weeks, a few Democrats have also shot warning flares about the sorts of issues becoming litmus tests in party forums. Questions about reparations for the descendants of slaves, which were brought into the debate by the hosts of the popular radio show the Breakfast Club, strike Democrats as the kind of material Republicans would weaponize in a general election. They saw something similar happen in 2018, asabout NFL players kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice.
For some supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders , his positions are litmus tests for the rest of the field — and other candidates come up short. From the 2016 meetings over the Democratic Party's platform to his rollouts of Medicare-for-all and minimum-wage legislation, Sanders has gotten most of the Democratic field on board with his issues, if not the exact details.
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