Inside Dem Dark Money Campaign To Harass Their Own Female Nominee Until She Quits
Progressive policy ambitions meet practical realities as Americans weigh costs and consequences.
There's something almost admirable about the honesty of it, in a bad way. Democrats spent a decade telling us that primary voters are sacred, that party bosses shouldn't overrule the base, that women candidates deserve support instead of sabotage. Then the moment their own nominee in Montana becomes inconvenient, the dark money apparatus turns on her, her family included, until she takes the hint and leaves.
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Democrats in Montana have embarked on a desperate campaign to force their own U.S. Senate nominee to quit the race, and they’re willing to harass members of her family to make that happen. According to Washington Reporter editor-in-chief Matthew Foldi, Democrats have become increasingly aware that independent candidate Seth Bodnar would stand a much better
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There's something almost admirable about the honesty of it, in a bad way. Democrats spent a decade telling us that primary voters are sacred, that party bosses shouldn't overrule the base, that women candidates deserve support instead of sabotage. Then the moment their own nominee in Montana becomes inconvenient, the dark money apparatus turns on her, her family included, until she takes the hint and leaves.
The reasoning behind it is almost worse than the tactic. This isn't about ideology or scandal. It's about math. Party operatives apparently concluded that an independent, Seth Bodnar, has a better shot than their own nominee, so the nominee has to go. Voters didn't get a say in that calculation. The people who actually cast ballots in the primary are being told their choice was a mistake that needs correcting behind closed doors.
We've heard plenty of lectures from Democrats about protecting democracy from insiders who think they know better than voters. Funny how that concern evaporates when the insiders in question are their own consultants running a pressure campaign against a woman they nominated themselves. If harassing a candidate's relatives is what it takes to clear the field, that tells you exactly how much the party trusts the voters it claims to represent.
None of this is really about Montana. It's a preview of how national Democrats operate when a race doesn't break their way. Quietly, ruthlessly, and with zero interest in what the people who showed up to vote actually wanted.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.