{"id":1002830,"date":"2018-11-04T22:55:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T02:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1002830"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:15:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:15:04","slug":"watch-tom-perez-we-have-become-a-50-state-party-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/watch-tom-perez-we-have-become-a-50-state-party-once-again\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Tom Perez: \u2018We have become a 50-state party once again\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Tonight on MSNBC\u2019s Kasie DC, DNC Chair Tom Perez discussed Tuesday\u2019s midterm elections and how the Democratic Party has \u201cbecome a 50-state party once again\u201d by working together with partner organizations and investing more in this midterm cycle than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dncpress\/status\/1059275646168432640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WATCH HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dncpress\/status\/1059275646168432640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"CToWUd\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/OBUEI9Xq6BPBhNFbngob_AJIYHsfXeUhJMA_nb_lpKU8mI16ReMjhymUnia1h_8oSIfPNajCCIBY7WT6lox9Dbc9NCLoYaAdEuTqlPUYi8cfjB0Umivln7ZfYvNbGt47JK8gi3i8\" width=\"493\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dncpress\/status\/1059275646168432640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chair Perez<\/a>: \u201cI&#8217;m optimistic about the fact that not only do we have all these House and Senate seats in play, you see two House seats in Kansas that are in play, you\u2019re now seeing seats in Iowa. We had two seats in play in Iowa and now Steve King&#8217;s seat is in play. But you also look at the map of governors&#8217; races because if we want to make sure we are competitive in the House for years to come, we\u2019ve got to win more state houses. And you look at the map of state houses that are in play, we have become a 50-state party once again. You see Kansas in play. You see Iowa in play. You see Alaska in play. You see obviously, the industrial Midwest in play. I was in Florida and Georgia, Friday and Saturday.\u201d<br class=\"m_95800446655378430gmail-kix-line-break\" \/><br class=\"m_95800446655378430gmail-kix-line-break\" \/>Kasie Hunt: \u00a0\u201cI&#8217;ll tell Howard Dean you said that by the way.\u201d<br class=\"m_95800446655378430gmail-kix-line-break\" \/><br class=\"m_95800446655378430gmail-kix-line-break\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dncpress\/status\/1059275646168432640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chair Perez<\/a>: \u201cAnd Ron Brown before him. And we from time to time have gotten away from that, Kasie. And I think we do that to our detriment. We&#8217;ve invested more in this midterm cycle than ever before. And the we is not just the DNC, it\u2019s working together with a broader ecosystem, our partners obviously at the DCCC and the Senate committees, but also the DGA and then people in the ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight on MSNBC\u2019s Kasie DC, DNC Chair Tom Perez discussed Tuesday\u2019s midterm elections and how the Democratic Party has \u201cbecome a 50-state party once again\u201d by working together with partner organizations and investing more in this midterm cycle than ever before. &nbsp; WATCH HERE &nbsp; Chair Perez: \u201cI&#8217;m optimistic about the fact that not only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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