Khanna Floats Compromise After Flare-Up Over DCCC Stifling Primaries
Source: Talking Points Memo
After a week of furious battles over House Democrats’ campaign arm move to blackball any operatives who back primary opponents to members, one progressive thinks he might have a compromise solution.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), one of the House Democrats who’s been the most vocally critical of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s new policy, said he thought there might be a solution where the committee changed its policy so that it only applied to strategists who went after sitting members in swing districts.
“I think there could be special circumstances perhaps for frontline members. That would be one possibility. There could be other compromises that could work,” Khanna told TPM during a sit-down with a handful of reporters Monday morning, referring to the group of Democrats the organization views as vulnerable in the 2020 general election.
“That wouldn’t be how I do things, but I’m saying at least they should offer certain compromises and we could look to other members and see if that’s something other people could live with,” Khanna continued. “Most of the progressives that I know are willing to engage in a conversation to see if there could be some kind of constructive way forward, because we’re team players for the caucus. What we won’t accept is total intransigence.”
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