Debbie Wasserman Schultz wins primary
Source: New York Times
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz won her Democratic primary tonight, outlasting a challenger who raised more than $3.3 million, much of it from Bernie Sanders supporters seeking to defeat the former Democratic National Committee chairwoman.
Wasserman Schultz, a six-term congresswoman, had 58 percent of the vote in Florida's 23rd District, with 56 percent of precincts reporting, when The Associated Press called the race. Tim Canova, a law professor, had 43 percent of the vote.
Canova leapt into the national spotlight after Sanders sent out fundraising emails on his behalf earlier this year. But he was unable to overcome Wasserman Schultzs standing back home, in a district Hillary Clinton won overwhelmingly in the Democratic presidential primary.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/florida-congressional-23-primary-wasserman-schultz-canova
stonecutter357
(12,682 posts)Response to onehandle (Original post)
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louis c
(8,652 posts)Anybody trying to undermine the Hillary campaign at this point in the election is unwittingly pulling for Donald Trump.
psst.......the primary is over.
jg10003
(974 posts)Besides, here in Broward County, Clinton will get at least 60% of the vote.
Beartracks
(12,761 posts)Grassy Knoll
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misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)skylucy
(3,734 posts)Response to onehandle (Original post)
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misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)They voted for her.
She serves her District.
You don't have to like her but to say shes not progressive nor progressive enough, according to your definition of "progressive" may be a bit biased.
Her District clearly loves her as do millions of supporters across this nation.
George II
(67,782 posts)jg10003
(974 posts)DWS is in the 23rd district, I'm in the 24th. The 23rd has a very high percentage of senior citizens (I think it's the second or third highest in the country). These are people in their 80's and 90's (including my parents and several aunts and uncles) who are unlikely to vote for a challenger to a well known incumbent. They see DWS as a nice Jewish girl who is the over-achieving child of their dreams. But my relatives are very surprised when I tell them about her positions on payday loans, everglades restoration, medical marijuana (supported by 57% of Floridians including many seniors), and that she has a Swiss bank account.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)And her loyalty to HRC's plans & policies is far more valuable than all the gossip you care to send out there.
Btw..
Where's the link to the bitter bias you just brought here?
Happy day for Dem loyalty.
Thank you District 23!!
Kudo s to DWS
Ford_Prefect
(7,817 posts)Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)louis c
(8,652 posts).....psst..........The primary is OVER
riversedge
(69,706 posts)Cha
(295,899 posts)misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Last edited Tue Aug 30, 2016, 11:21 PM - Edit history (1)
I've missed you.
What a great night for DWS. Righteous redemption for all the b.s. she endured.
She proved she is far more fit for the job than some lightweight wishy washy whiner who arrived late to the Party & expected to win a prize for just showing up.
This woman has the fighting strength that will serve her President Hillary very well in DC.
2 months till this hell of a year is over.
Women need to run the show in DC for a long time.
We have some amazing women candidates who have definately had to earn their place in history, running against men who consistantly showed miserable weaknesses.
Congrats to DWS
Nice to see you Cha
Cha
(295,899 posts)Nice to see you, too~
Yes, Congratulations to DWS!
Stuckinthebush
(10,816 posts)Way to go DWS!
Cha
(295,899 posts)DWS won!
Stuckinthebush
(10,816 posts)Ha! Thing sure have changed around here! It's so....peaceful!
I'm happy for DWS and for our next president, Mrs Clinton.
I hope you are well, Cha!
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)I'm so happy to see you!
Cha
(295,899 posts)Congrats to DWS! Who President Obama, John Lewis, and Hillary endorsed!
riversedge
(69,706 posts)geomon666
(7,512 posts)Excuse me if I don't break out the champagne.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)emulatorloo
(43,979 posts)speak English not meaningless bullshit jargon, you'll impress people more that way.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)It doesn't matter one bit. Because every single woman in this 2016 race has had to play this game harder, quicker & yes, that backwards dance expected by the mysogynistic culture that has ragged on them since this race began.
Say whatever you want about DWS, but she has well earned her seat in the United States House of Representatives.
We'll proudly take her fighting spirit over some guy who ran a weak campaign and expected someone to show up with a lifeline when the going got tough.
DEM Women Rule 2016.
On to Nov 8th
turbinetree
(24,631 posts)Cary
(11,746 posts)Get over it.
BainsBane
(53,001 posts)constitute a challenge to neoliberalism? Or do minor issues like empire and war pale in comparison to who someone endorsed in an already settled primary?
And how exactly would a victory of a professor of finance law in a political primary deal a blow against capitalism?
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,079 posts)...didn't help Tim Canova?
I'm shocked. Truly shocked.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)..said No serious person ever.
Oh well. Nice try, no cigar.
MADem
(135,425 posts)mdbl
(4,972 posts)Things could have used a bit of a shake up. Career politicians aren't always better.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)A President Hillary deserves loyalty from those she knows will always have her back to undo the years of damage done to this country and around the world by the Republican Party.
mdbl
(4,972 posts)Just because someone other than DWS would be elected doesn't mean they won't support the Democratic candidate. I would, however, feel better if the people in position like DWS would be more of a supporter of a progressive agenda and not a toady.
jalan48
(13,797 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Until we can create a system for the poor to have access to needed cash, payday loans are all there are. And they need to be regulated. The key to creating a system for the poor to have access to cash is a Democratic congress and president. Which we do not now have.
Getting rid of them because you know better than the 'poor' in the height of elitism.
jalan48
(13,797 posts)However, I grew up in a family where it happened many times so I'm well aware what it's like to be poor and need financing for food and rent or have no place to live. Good try with the "elitism" though.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Or were. I am fortunately not poor now.
What would your family had done had you not had payday lenders? Go hungry or be evicted. They suck ASS. But until we pay our low paid workers a decent wage and come up with a way to get cheap money(not free) to low paid workers, like perhaps a postal bank, what choices are there?
This is a complicated issue as most are, and that is the weakness of our system of sound bites and with me or against me. Sometimes there is just not good option.
Have a nice evening.
jalan48
(13,797 posts)Payday lending is predatory capitalism. The lenders prey on desperate and uninformed people and families in need. Hopefully, the new Congress can address this issue.
Have a nice evening also.
MADem
(135,425 posts)drive desperate people into the arms of loan sharks who have NO rules at all.
We saw this happen years ago when we put certain payday lenders "OFF LIMITS" in the USN.
We don't teach financial literacy in schools, and we really need to do that.
We also need to put low-cost banking in public access areas, like post offices....just the basics; a savings account, a place to buy a money order, a place to deposit a paycheck, that kind of thing.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)In France most post offices have a bank in them for low cost savings accounts.
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)PoliticalMalcontent
(449 posts)Oh wait...
More of the same. Color me unimpressed.
c588415
(285 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)the folks at home to continue to work for them.
retrowire
(10,345 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)I would not be surprised if she becomes a highly visible leader in the House in the years to come. Why? Her PEERS (who elect their peers to these sorts of duties) really, really LIKE her. They know she's a tireless worker and she has enormous intelligence to go with that determination.
Good win!
I see (unsurprisingly) that Grayson got his ass handed to him, as well.
Harry Reid smiles. Jon Tester says "I told you so!"
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)I too see DWS being offered a well earned place of priority.
I have much respect for her, holding her head high & doing the right thing for her Party in this critical & historic election.
She has well earned her wings and absolute respect.
Love her strength.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)Canova's biggest problem was that he was in the wrong district. Canova versus Wasserman Schultz was widely seen as a proxy for Sanders versus Clinton, and Canova was running in a district where Clinton won the primary with 68% of the vote. DWS fell about ten points short of that.
Of course it would have been nice if the progressive candidate had won the nomination, but it was always a long shot. DWS had the advantage of incumbency as well as that of being on the right side of the perceived "proxy" fight. We'll have to settle for having given her a serious primary challenge for the first time in her career. Maybe that will help her "evolve" some in her next term in Congress.
MADem
(135,425 posts)signed up to beat up on DWS.
You beat someone by double digits, that's plenty.
Canova's biggest problem is he didn't understand his constituency.
I think it's great that the best candidate won. Anyone who panders on rightwing radio for votes is not "the best candidate" and is likely a faux progressive, too.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)The new point in your post is that there were a lot of new registrations, presumably galvanized by the Canova campaign. I hadn't heard that but it's good news. If Canova and his volunteers registered a lot of new Democrats who preferred the candidate who was against fracking, in favor of banning military assault rifles, etc., then presumably those new voters will break heavily for Clinton over Trump in November. Good work, Tim!
MADem
(135,425 posts)Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)A year ago, no one expected Wasserman Schultz to have a primary challenger at all, let alone one who (as a first-time candidate) got more than 40% of the vote.
When well-entrenched elected officials have to defend their positions and even debate their challengers, I think democracy benefits. I've never been a fan of coronations.
MADem
(135,425 posts)once the next session begins. Canova imploded pretty badly towards the latter part of the race; if it had gone on for much longer he likely would have lost by more. All that hand wringing and whining, that "what in hell did he do with that three million that people sent him," and complaining that Bernie wouldn't come and save him--it was unseemly.
She's well - entrenched, as you say .... and she still won. She wasn't "coronated," she WON. She demonstrated better leadership skills, and she didn't whine, cry, or appeal to rightwingers in flopsweat desperation in the 11th hour.
People LIKE her and they voted for her. That's the bottom line.
William769
(55,124 posts)We'll leave it at that.
murielm99
(30,655 posts)Congrats, Debbie! Don't let the haters get you down.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)..loyally serve her friend, Madam President Hillary.
Yippee!!!
Hi murielm99
DonCoquixote
(13,615 posts)Debbie has done a very fine job of that herself by being incompetent and treacherous, poor enough to get caught working against other democrats. Excuse me while I do nto see how the person that lost us so many seats in state houses and congress is working for democrats; the GOP wishes they could pay someone to do as bad a job as she did.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Thanks to Sanders' strange vendetta she's a nationally recognized Clinton ally, maybe the best known after Bill and Chelsea, and getting hammered in Florida would have put the whole state in play. And that would be demoralizing and scary as hell.
GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)She is a nationally recognized Clinton ally because she used the DNC to throw the primary in Clinton's favor and was exposed for it
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Kidding. But what everyone saw was the DNC under DWS graciously letting Sanders run against Hills as an Independent. As I've said before, it seemed to me at the time like a terrible idea, potentially fatal. It wasn't, but it did a lot of damage, to DWS for one, Boxer for another (I won't speculate on anyone's issues here but sheesh) and if Trump wasn't such a crap candidate it might well have been fatal. That's why we're so relieved she didn't lose.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)DiverDave
(4,874 posts)This was about getting rid of a DINO that managed to give the house to the repukes, while enriching herself.
You all say that the primary is over, but keep bringing it up.
dws was a disaster for the Democratic party.
To cheer her win is to cheer the stinking DLC and 3rd way.
Canova would have brought real Democratic values.
Not cover for payday loan sharks
William769
(55,124 posts)WTG DWS!
lark
(22,993 posts)Oligarchs - 1
True Democrats - 0
murielm99
(30,655 posts)are just as unclassy as his entire campaign and the attitude of his supporters here.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article98944892.html
I am so glad she won instead of this whiner.
MADem
(135,425 posts)error in endorsing the jerk in the first place.
DEMOCRATS--real ones, anyway--don't behave like this. This is just shittiness:
Bernie Sanders backed Canova and helped him raise money from donors nationwide, but never came to campaign for him in South Florida.
Canova hadnt conceded shortly before 10 p.m. when he spoke to reporters at Kasa Champet, a Haitian restaurant in Pembroke Pines. Although he said he was in a wait-and-see mode it was clear that he was far behind.
Life knocks us on our ass a lot of times, he said. Everyone gets knocked on their butt a lot of times. The test of character is getting back up on our feet and this movement has been knocked off its feet time and time again.
But even when it became clear later that he had lost, Canova didnt go quietly into the night, refusing to concede.
I will concede Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a corporate stooge, he said.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article98944892.html#storylink=cpy
DWS knocked him on his ass, and he needs to stay there. Or go hang out with his right wing radio buddies.
Putz!
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)I'm not a DWS fan by any means, but it does seem unlikely someone with that combination of rotten temperment and inexperience would have done us any favors.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)for a new Rep. DWS will get a job in the Clinton administration.
obamanut2012
(25,905 posts)hughee99
(16,113 posts)a lot of people, but I think DWS has demonstrated that Clinton can trust her.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)a cabinet position won't be pending.
mdbl
(4,972 posts)and life and death to others.