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Happy Tuesday and welcome again since the long weekend. In today’s edition, we explore how Barack Obama’s political orbit loses part of his influence. In addition, Steve Kornacki breaks down where the parties of the powerful Democrats of New Jersey in the primary of the crowded governor are traditionally found.
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Obama World loses its brilliance in a changing democratic party – and in difficulty
By Natasha Korecki, Jonathan Allen and Allan Smith
There is a growing feeling through a Democratic Party in search of a path to follow: the flowering of the Obama team can fall from the rose.
More and more democrats openly criticize the strategists and consultants of former President Barack Obama – including David Plouffe, who played a key role in the Kamala Harris campaign in 2024 – who have long been treated as the high priests of their party politics.
The managers of the National Democratic Committee during a news event last month accused Obama’s lack of investment in the states parties during its two mandates for having returned the local organization, the party always feeling the effects.
The so -called Obama coalition of voters – less politically committed voters, young voters and color voters – is no longer. In 2024, Each of these groups moved to Donald Trump in high numbers.
In the future, he could mark a clean slate for a party whose course for almost two decades was cascading in the decisions that Obama had taken.
It was Obama who chose Joe Biden as vice-president, offering him the high perch that set up his elections in 2020 and his aborted re-election campaign in 2024. Obama selected Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, then held it for Democratic appointment in the 2016 race against Trump. Obama agents and its best autonomous aid have developed leading and decision -making roles at the summit of the Democratic Party since then.
Obama himself remains a force in the party, filling the stadiums and attracting the attention of the main donors. Indeed, the DNC is in talks with the governor of New Jersey Phil Murphy to welcome Obama for a fundraising at his home, according to two people knowing planning, who is still in his early days.
But even the brilliance of the former president was showing signs From the discoloration last fall, a phenomenon that threatens to persist as the next harvest of young voters is aging in adulthood. When the 2028 presidential election arrives, it will be 20 years since Obama’s first victory. At this stage, more voters have reached the age of the Trump era than in the Obama era.
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The race of the governor of New Jersey tests the power of the stay of the Machines of the County of the Democrats
By Steve Kornacki
A metric has traditionally been final with regard to the democratic competitions of New Jersey: the county line. And by this metric, a candidate directs the circles around the others before the elementary of governor of June 10: the representative Mikie Sherrill.
Sherrill has won the approvals of 10 of the 21 Democratic Bounty Organizations of the State, including three of the four largest. Only two of the five other candidates of the race, representative Josh Gottheimer and the former president of the State Senate, Steve Sweeney, heard endorsements of the county.
The counties in which Sherrill won support represents almost 60% of all the registered Democrats in the State. They understand the county in which his 11th district of the congress is based, Morris, and the other two he touches, Passaic and Essex. Gottheimer, whose 5th district is based in Bergen, also represents a part of Passaic and Sussex. And Ras Baraka is the mayor of Newark, the largest city in Essex (and the state). Sweeney, the only candidate of South Jersey, has widely swept this region, where county organizations generally act as a block.
What has traditionally made these advantages so significant is the favorite voting position that accompanied them. An approved candidate would appear at the top of the official line of the organization of the Democratic county, a column of official appearance and impossible to miss which would also include a multitude of local names familiar for the lower offices. The names of the other candidates would be listed by themselves, often in the claims of the ballot.
The results were predictable: the candidates flowing from the line have almost never won and were generally blown away. The last primary of Open Democratic Governor was mainly set a year before the votesWhen the largest county organizations have taken support of now Gov. Phil Murphy.
But a Successful trial last year And a new law Signed by Murphy In March, I changed the game. The line disappeared and the county parties can no longer list all their approved candidates in a special column. The main ballots now list the candidates by the office they are looking for. One of the questions before the June primary is how it has decreased the power of the county approvals.
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