Maybe misogyny doesn’t sell?
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Greg Sargent’s Daily Blast:
In recent days, Donald Trump and MAGA media figures have ramped up the attacks on Kamala Harris’s laugh, her personality, and her temperament. That’s vile stuff, but MAGA’s strategy also suggests an inability to entertain a remarkable possibility: What if Harris’s laugh and energy are actually well suited to this moment in American politics? Jenifer Fernandez Ancona, co-founder of the progressive strategy group Way to Win, has been advising Democrats to respond aggressively to racist and sexist attacks on Harris. We talked to Ancona about whether Harris’s temperament might prove to be kryptonite to MAGA’s negativity and hate. Listen to this episode here.
Ancona moderated a panel at Netroots-Baltimore this month: Amplify: Getting Louder to Win in 2024 (video). One finding to note: to get more young people to turn out, younger candidates need to be prominent in our interactions with voters. They need to see younger faces reflected in the Democrats’ 2024 slates.
Several of NC’s statewide candidates fit that bill. These three are all roughly 40.
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NC Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs is running to retain her seat on the GOP-dominated court. She’s just over 40.
Make sure younger voters know Democrats are advancing candidates who look like them, including the youngest state chair in the country. Anderson Clayton is 26.
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