By Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post
While the media has made much of progressives prevailing in Democratic primaries, the reality is quite different. “For every one of those progressive triumphs, two moderate Democrats survived challenges in blue districts,” David Wasserman of the Cook Political Report reported last week…In fact, the new House may look even more moderate than the current one. Per Wasserman’s assessment: “Of the 29 Democrats with at least an even chance of coming to Congress in January, 11 have been endorsed by either or both of the left-leaning Congressional Progressive Caucus PAC and Justice Democrats while 16 have been endorsed by either or both of the moderate NewDem Action Fund or Blue Dog PAC."…
“The name of the game in Congress is building majorities, and there simply is no doubt that the 2018 House majority was built by moderate Democrats. And if we win a 2020 Senate majority, it also will be built by moderates,” Matt Bennett, executive vice president of the moderate group Third Way, told me. “Changing a seat from sapphire blue to navy blue does nothing to stop [President] Trump or rescue our country. To do that, you have to flip from red to blue. And that has been the job of the New Democrats...”