The event, held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic, featured Vice President Kamala Harris, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Gov. Gavin Newsom.
As California Democrats work to motivate their voters ahead of midterm elections in which their party is largely expected to lose control of Congress, their annual convention on Saturday instead devolved into a showcase of division.
Another labor leader denounced the influence of corporate donations and lobbyists on some elected Democrats, punctuating his speech with an expletive. “We have been silenced, we have been pushed aside, we have been told we are not welcome,” he said during a caucus meeting. “And they’re taking a ton of dirty money and cleaning it to elect the worst people in that world.”
Democrats must focus on protecting Reps. Mike Levin of San Juan Capistrano, Katie Porter of Irvine and Josh Harder of Turlock, and on ousting GOP Reps. Michelle Steel of Seal Beach, Young Kim of La Habra, Mike Garcia of Santa Clarita, Ken Calvert of Corona and David Valadao of Hanford, Schiff said.Party Chairman Rusty Hicks said he was not concerned that the divisions would harm the party’s efforts this year.
“In an off-year, an off-month election when people thought we would put down our guard, that we’d be lulled to sleep, we stepped up in extraordinary and unprecedented ways. ... It’s just a proof point, a foundational point — when we are united as Democrats, everything’s possible,” Newsom said.
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