Ultimate Cagefight MMXIX, Democratic Edition

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More Q1 updates:

Gillibrand raised $3 million in Q1; 92% of donations under $200. She also has a war chest of over $10 million on hand to spend on her candidacy.
Kirsten Gillibrand: Everything you need to know about the 2020 candidate
Gillibrand is a co-sponsor of Medicare for All, strong supporter of the Green New Deal, and champions issues surrounding sexual assault; currently the Senator who votes least in line with Trump.

Jay Inslee raised $2.25 million Q1; no info released on donors; Inslee is backed by a Super-PAC Act Now on Climate. His signature issue remains climate change, with some strong positions on gun control and vaccination.
Jay Inslee: Everything you need to know about the 2020 candidate

In other Inslee news:

Inslee calls on DNC to hold debate focused on climate change
From about 18 hours ago.

DNC pumps brakes on Jay Inslee's proposal for climate change debate
From about seven hours ago; guess that got resolved.

Speaking of National Democratic Apparatus: in March, the DCCC implemented their blacklisting rule- if you work for anyone challenging an incumbent Dem from the Left, you will never work for anyone connected to the DCCC's machine.
The DCCC's Strategy to Kill Primary Challenges Is Reportedly Already Working

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has a plan to prevent another Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez-type incumbent challenger from ever succeeding again, and it appears to be already working.

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This “blacklisting” that Klein is referring to is the DCCC’s new “hiring standards” rules, which say the organization won’t contract with or recommend services of any firm that works for a candidate challenging a Democrat incumbent.

The National Journal reported the rule change on Friday, which follows the ascension of conservative Democrat Cheri Bustos to DCCC chair. The DCCC’s independent-expenditure arm pays millions in contracts to consultants and connects them to Democratic campaigns, opportunities, and resources that a firm would be cut off to if it worked with a candidate that challenged incumbents.

The rule change seems tailor-made to protect conservative incumbents in deep-blue districts, such as Texas’ Henry Cuellar (who has been frequently mentioned by the left-wing electoral group Justice Democrats as ripe for a primary challenge) and Illinois’ Dan Lipinski, an anti-choice Democrat, one of the few members left in Congress who opposed Obamacare, and someone who barely beat back a primary challenge last year from nonprofit executive Marie Newman, who was endorsed by Illinois Democratic Reps. Jan Schakowsky and Luis Gutierrez. (Newman is reportedly raising money for another run against Lipinski next year.)

Seems legit