Thread by @DrJasonJohnson

With all due respect to @perrybaconjr
The framing of this piece is absolutely ridiculous and is the quintessential example of inside the beltway thinking (even when it comes from outside the beltway )

https://twitter.com/perrybaconjr/status/1422297038734209028

Campaign to "Keep Nina Turner out of the House" sounds like it was written by a press flak. Turner ran a mostly locally focused campaign for months. But she did raise millions from donors mostly outside of the district, which makes sense given her national profile

#Ohio11 residents are NOT viewing this race as a proxy battle. Shontel Brown is the local Dem party chair & mentored by Fudge, nobody outside of the DC pundit class sees her as the establishment. Turner is a national surrogate coming back to her old district to serve

Brown would have run whether Turner was in the race or not. The "Stop Nina Turner" language implies there isn't an indigenous appetite for another candidate without national Dem intervention and obviously there is. To be fair Turner nationalized the race before Brown did

#Ohio11 is a total toss-up and there are strong arguments to be made for #shontelbrownforcongress and #NinaTurner but as a profession we need to streer away from extrapolating larger meaning from local races especially when BOTH sides have raised millions from out of state

Not ONE credible Democrat who lost in 20' ran on #DefundThePolice. Quite the opposite. Clyburn's critique of the slogan isn't intra-party warfare because nobody in the party ran on that slogan. It's almost a GOP talking point to suggest otherwise

The majority of Democrats picked Biden for president. The war between Sanders & Biden or HRC exists in the heads of pundits and angry surrogates who can't read the room. Nobody in Ohio City, Lee & Harvard or 140th & St. Claire in #Ohio11 is looking at it that way

If anything this is a race between a national political surrogate and a local party chair. Turner is by no stretch of the imagination an underdog having almost 100% name recognition & having raised millions before Brown could get one ad on the air. #Oh11

I've spoken to more than a half dozen #Ohio11 voters in the last 24 hours. Not one of them used the word "establishment". And the biggest fundraiser in this campaign has been the "progressive" candidate. Let's not confuse facts in favor of the preferred narrative