By Cortney O'Brien
It's a new year, but a CNN panel hosted by Nia-Malika
Henderson took a few moments this weekend to reflect on Democrats' poor
messaging in 2017 - poor messaging which resulted in their pacing far behind
the Republicans in fundraising.
As of November, the RNC had $39.8 million in
cash on hand, to the DNC's $6.3 million.
Jake Tapper also remarked on the Democrats' dry
fundraising on Twitter. It's kind of a big deal, he noted.
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The fundraising superiority of @gop over @dnc
this year is not to be dismissed and it’s kind of astounding how Democrats
aren’t publicly sounding an alarm
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Former interim DNC chair Donna Brazile dished on the Democrats' disorganization during a book
event in Washington, D.C. last month. For an hour, she described the DNC's
inability to patrol its funds and its catering to Hillary Clinton during the
2016 election.
It's that last sticking point that has stopped small
donors from giving the DNC one penny, Wall Street Journal's Julie
Bykowicz mused during the panel
discussion. They feel like the committee "forced" Clinton on
them, without even considering giving Bernie Sanders a fair shot at the
nomination.
As for big donors like Tom Steyer, they are too busy
spending their money on farfetched impeachment efforts against President Trump.
"It's a tough year for the Democratic Party to try
and rebrand itself and market itself in a way that is attractive to small
donors and big donors alike," she said.
In July, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tried to
get some momentum going by claiming Trump had turned his back on the working
people and that the Democrats were going “to fill the vacuum.”
“How is that going?” Henderson asked her panel,
chuckling.
The Democrats “have not articulated their rationale for
being put back into power” other than that they would stop Trump, Karen Tumulty
of The Washington Post noted.
