Hogg Wild
"Good Riddance" - DNC Vice Chair election shows the tent still has room to shrink
David Hogg thinks Democrats don’t need candidates like Mary Peltola? Of course that’s his contention, he’s a first-year Harvard grad who just got done spending millions on spam texts.
After 10pm on Saturday night, the Democratic National Committee elected failed pillow pitch man David Hogg as Vice Chair.
Over the past year, Hogg has been known for two things: celebrating Democratic losses and spamming Democratic donors.
The Tweet
In the days following the 2024 election, Hogg tweeted - and has not deleted - a post saying “good riddance” to moderate Alaska Representative Mary Peltola, who performed more above partisan expectations1 than any other Democratic candidate in a competitive congressional election.
As you may have heard, control of the House of Representatives is incredibly narrow. Celebrating the loss of impure Democrats in red districts is exactly the type of litmus test extremism that failed the last Resistance, and the last thing we need at the top of the DNC.
The PAC
Like many high-profile progressive activists, David Hogg started his own PAC. Over the last two years, Hogg’s “Leaders We Deserve” PAC spent more than $4,771,884 on two progressive fundraising firms2 for the most annoying possible expenditures: list acquisition, digital ads, and texts.
Of nearly $12 million raised, none went to independent expenditures supporting federal Democrats in competitive races.3 His only spending was $194,000 for the primary challenger to Rebecca Cooke in WI-03 - like Peltola, a Blue Dog who won far more voters than analysts predicted.
But, again, Hogg celebrated the loss of Peltola:
Dems’ Other White Guy Problem
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