If you were in charge of NC Democrats, what would your goals be?

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If you were in charge of North Carolina’s Democratic Party, what would your goal be?

[Tekken_Guy]

Selling Cal Cunningham's soul to the devil in exchange for the perfect candidate to beat Thom Tillis in 2026

That really falls on Schumer for being a dipsh**t and picking the corporate stooge (who had not held elected office in over a decade and was a sleaze) over the top-tier recruit that planned to organize and run a top-tier campaign. The "basement strategy" cost us many competitive races that cycle.

In no way, shape, or form was what happened with Cunningham Schumer’s fault.  This myth has been debunked many times.

While it may be true that Cunningham's personal problems were not Schumer's fault, it is also true that Schumer's preferred strategy of hyperfocusing on fundraising and attacks against opponents at the expense of in-person campaigning and running on actual policy substance proved to be a terrible one when looking at the actual results. For example, Sara Gideon (another Schumer-backed pick) didn't have Cunningham's personal problems, but her campaign nonetheless turned off more than enough voters in her home state such that she ended up running so far behind the presidential ticket that she actually lost by a significant margin. Similarly, in Cunningham's case, the fact that his campaign was substance-free meant that its foundation was already weak, so even without his personal problems, he was still vulnerable based on his rather uninspiring campaign.

The anti-Collins vote was heavily split because of RCV meaning voters didn’t feel obligated to consolidate behind Gideon, which inflated the margin that she lost by.