This should clarify once and for all who won, who is relevant, and
who is in charge. Any senator who did not bother to
stand with the Democratic senators last night spoke volumes with that silence. Being a
Democrat is a full-time job not a hobby you can pick up and put down at
will. Summer soldiers and sunshine patriots do not receive commissions
and do not get to make battlefield decisions.
Post Politics
By Abby Phillip June 16
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair of the Democratic National Committee. (Richard Drew/AP)
Hillary
Clinton's campaign is set to install an official who will take over the
day-to-day efforts for the general-election race at the Democratic
National Committee, according to several Democrats familiar with the
change.
Brandon Davis, 38, will be the chief of staff for the
general-election race and was introduced by Clinton campaign manager
Robby Mook on Thursday morning at a DNC staff meeting. Davis served as
national political director for the Service Employees International
Union and is a former political director and deputy campaign manager for
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.).
The installation of a Clinton
campaign aide at the DNC marks a long-anticipated takeover of the
Democratic Party's core functions by the presumptive nominee as the race
for the general election begins. In 2008, the Obama campaign installed
Paul Tewes in a similar role. The change was first reported by CNN.
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