Biden set to pick Jaime Harrison as DNC chair

Just curious. Thinking she still has sights set on governor.

that she plans to run for GA Governor again.

I hope he sees the job as a 50-state strategy.

I’m not sure a true 50 state strategy is viable anymore, but reaching as broadly as realistically possible is essential.

campaign, and not to take anything away from him, I believe a lot of the money flowed in because we wanted so badly to get rid of Graham and the polls suggested the race was close.

But Biden’s teams surely looked at all the angles and made the best choice.

He raised a lot of money, but he lost quite badly (more than 10%) to Lindsey Graham.

Stacey Abrams is running for GA governor in 2022; otherwise, she would have been perfect. I don't think Mr. Harrison is in her league.

But he's probably OK for now.

Sometimes people grow well into the job,
and he has a lot of heart and spirit.

I still cannot understand how Harrison lost by so much...he was light years ahead in terms of honesty, intelligence, charm, and charisma of the ultimate bootlicker Lyin' Leningrad Lindsey.

Anyways, if Joe (along with Rep. Clyburn) trusts him that's good enough for me. But Jaime needs to have some REALLY long Zoom calls with Stacey to perfect the recipe for winning unwinnable elections!

It would be fine so long as Biden talked to Abrams first which I am sure that he did. I do hope she could adopt the new Southern strategy. She is as much a girl/woman of Mississippi as she is of Georgia. She went to grade school all the way to at least 10th grade in Mississippi. I hope she brings her skills in assisting and mentoring activists in other states like Alabama and Mississippi.

She is also pretty young. There is plenty of time with a turn as Governor before moving on to national office.

She's a bright rising star with some major accomplishments now under her belt.
I'm thinking nothing would give her greater pleasure than to run for governor again and totally wipe out the crooked republican who cheated her out of her victory last time.

so pretty much understands what the job entails. He's also charismatic and sharp, not some boring guy like Tom Perez was.

Jaimie didn't do well in the SC senate race but it is a deep red state and Trump was at the top of the ticket.

because I never read about it from her and wondered that she'd want it. It's not meant to be an out-front position, more administrative support for the party. Our big policy decisionmakers are all elsewhere.

The official party head is always our top elected official in office. Pelosi, then Biden once he became our nominee, which is when his agenda became the party's. It would have been Pelosi again if he hadn't been elected.

The misunderstanding came from Bernie Sanders, who needed a target to turn his hostile populists against, so he pointed them at the DNC, but it had been badly neglected was almost devoid of power by then, and was never the ideological center that he implied it was.

Btw, the DNC's been restructured to be able to perform its role much better now, and Harrison will have a real job -- getting Democrats elected, but the DNC still doesn't set the agenda for anything but its own functions, important as they are.

But, unfortunately, that wasn't to be. This is a worthy substitute.

I still think the crooked Republicans in my state stole the seat for Leningrad Lindsey, but I doubt we'll ever get to see anything that proves--or disproves that.