A power struggle has broken out over who will run the Democratic Party in Nevada. New documents obtained by NBCNews display the depths of the divide and how they played out in the run-up to one of the closest Senate races in the nation.
. Two sparring sides accuse each other of attempting to fracture the party.
The documents lay out a pressure campaign in advance of an ultimately abandoned plan to de-charter Washoe County Democrats from the state party, including a desire to hit back at the party's own senator“Unleash loyalists on CCM et al,” one of the list items read in the document, in an apparent reference to Cortez Masto.
Both Whitmer and a party spokesman confirmed the documents but said they reflected a memorialization of a conversation with an attorney over possible ways to deal with an entity for which the party held liability but no oversight.Still, establishment Democrats charge that the state party at times worked against them in last year’s midterms, including backing a primary challenger to the sitting lieutenant governor.
Whitmer disputed charges that she attempted to undermine the coordinated campaign run by Nevada Democratic Victory and specifically rejected the notion that she had worked against Cortez Masto.She said the documents reflected notes taken by a former employee, and she did not recall talking about plotting against Cortez Masto.
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