I wouldn't call Peters time as senate chair a failure but others from what I've read see it as a failure or "perceived failure." There has been some frustration that the Wisconsin senate election in 2022 was very winnable and Mandela Barnes was neglected due to perceptions of being a weak candidate and thus didn't get nearly enough funding. Many would also point out a very winnable race in PA in 2024 that somehow more could have been done to win. Personally, I don't think Peters was a "failure" though I do think his time in this role was rather lackluster. He's no Howard Dean but he got the job done considering all the chaos in DC. The problem is his "perceived failure" which translates to what the DNC failed to achieve, even if much of that is beyond his control.
Frankly, I see problems with the DSCC as not unique to when Peters ran it.
There were problems with the DSCC even back in 2020 when it chose to endorse Sara Gideon's Senate campaign against Senator Susan Collins back in June 2019, months before the primary race was even held. According to Nathan Bernard, a reporter at the worker-owned magazine Mainer (when he was interviewed by CBS News), the DSCC's endorsement of Gideon's campaign killed her chances of unseating Susan Collins.
The DSCC can make plenty of errors. The way to deal with this is to be smart in when the right time to make the investment for a particular campaign. I'd prefer the primary process be dealt with where the Senate candidates themselves run their own campaigns and the DSCC comes in later, not earlier.
Failure? They hung on to the senate in 2022 when everyone thought they were going to lose it.
I wouldn't call Peters time as senate chair a failure but others from what I've read see it as a failure or "perceived failure." There has been some frustration that the Wisconsin senate election in 2022 was very winnable and Mandela Barnes was neglected due to perceptions of being a weak candidate and thus didn't get nearly enough funding. Many would also point out a very winnable race in PA in 2024 that somehow more could have been done to win. Personally, I don't think Peters was a "failure" though I do think his time in this role was rather lackluster. He's no Howard Dean but he got the job done considering all the chaos in DC. The problem is his "perceived failure" which translates to what the DNC failed to achieve, even if much of that is beyond his control.
A тАЬperceived failureтАЭ. Oh, politics.
Barnes was funded; I am tired of such Monday morning quarterbacking (not saying that you are doing it)
Frankly, I see problems with the DSCC as not unique to when Peters ran it.
There were problems with the DSCC even back in 2020 when it chose to endorse Sara Gideon's Senate campaign against Senator Susan Collins back in June 2019, months before the primary race was even held. According to Nathan Bernard, a reporter at the worker-owned magazine Mainer (when he was interviewed by CBS News), the DSCC's endorsement of Gideon's campaign killed her chances of unseating Susan Collins.
The DSCC can make plenty of errors. The way to deal with this is to be smart in when the right time to make the investment for a particular campaign. I'd prefer the primary process be dealt with where the Senate candidates themselves run their own campaigns and the DSCC comes in later, not earlier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chUCk-1NVaM
All states are different; you have to adjust the strategy depending on the state being analyzed