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— Chris Swart (@BwanaChris) March 15, 2024
NEW: The DNC is building its first-ever team to counter third-party candidates, hiring ?@Lis_Smith? and ?@mattcorridoni?.
Meanwhile, outside groups are preparing for open war with third party candidates like never before. https://t.co/PO8rdh5tdm
— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) March 14, 2024
Taking that warning to heart... Alex Seitz-Wald, at NBC – “Democrats prepare to go to war against third-party candidates”:
The Democratic National Committee is building its first team to counter third-party and independent presidential candidates, people involved told NBC News, as the party and its allies prepare for a potential all-out war on candidates they view as spoilers.
The DNC has hired veteran Democratic operative Lis Smith, best known for her work guiding the 2020 presidential campaign of Pete Buttigieg, to help oversee an aggressive communications component of its strategy, which also includes opposition research and legal challenges.
Underscoring how important Democrats view the effort, it is being overseen by Mary Beth Cahill and Ramsey Reid, two veteran DNC insiders, who have already started issuing rare public statements rebuking Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“We’re facing an unprecedented election and we know the GOP is already working to prop up third-party candidates like Robert Kennedy Jr. to make them stalking horses for Donald Trump,” Corridoni told NBC News. “With so much on the line, we’re not taking anything for granted. We’re going to make sure voters are educated and we’re going to make sure all candidates are playing by the rules.”
The move comes as a coalition of outside groups — which includes Democratic and anti-Trump Republican organizations — stockpile money and work to stymie third parties…
When you send me terrible quotes of Biden saying stuff from 50 years ago, it doesn’t make me think, oh no, Biden is terrible, it makes me think, wow, the guy who said this grew so much that he came around on trans rights. Sounds like a great person I would want for president!
— LadyGrey ???????????? (@TWLadyGrey) March 14, 2024
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