New: Dems fear their midterm message isn’t breaking thru — and warnings from vulnerables on agenda, a reason why eviction moratorium stalled. DCCC presented frontliners with bad polls — and a warning House is gone if election were held today. W/@MZanona cnn.com/2021/08/03/pol…
“We are not afraid of these polling numbers," Tim Persico, the DCCC executive director, told CNN on Tuesday. "They are not gloom and doom; they show a clear pathway to keeping the House.”
"It reaffirmed our belief, and our urging of the DCCC, to make sure that leadership understands that they need to really listen to us ... They've got to trust us," said one Democrat in a key battleground district. "Ignore us at your peril."
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, a New York Democrat who chairs the DCCC, discussed new polling of 1,000 likely 2022 voters in more than 48 battleground districts and areas. And Maloney told his colleagues: "If the election were held today, we would lose," per multiple sources
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