Democrats' civil war in 2020? The party's biggest super PAC won't be part of it.

[DonViejo]

Priorities USA vowed to stay on the sidelines and instead focus on beating Trump

by Alex Seitz-Wald / Mar.16.2018 / 4:41 AM ET

WASHINGTON — Anticipating an unusually crowded Democratic presidential primary in 2020, the party's biggest super PAC is vowing to stay out of the race and focus on taking on President Donald Trump, beginning preparations now for an election more than two and half years away.

Priorities USA, which has spent hundreds of millions of dollars backing Democrats since forming in 2011 to promote Barack Obama's reelection, wants to be ready to assist whomever emerges from the fray as the party's nominee.

"We will not be involved in a primary," Guy Cecil, the group's chairman of Priorities USA, pledged in an interview. Instead, he described the group's 2020 mission as "having the resources so that once the primary is over, we’ll be ready to go."

Democratic heavyweights will have to tread lightly in a primary field that could include as many as 20 or more candidates, since many Democrats remain sensitive to even the appearance of meddling after the 2016 primary.

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[dalton99a]

1. Focus on November 6, 2018.

[Blue_Adept]

2. That's fine for a lot of aspects

But there are organizations and things that HAVE to plan for the long term. The feelers are out there.

Not EVERYTHING needs to be focusing on the here and now. That's how you die.

[herding cats]

3. They are.

At the moment, Priorities main focus — and almost all of its budget — remains on this year's midterm elections, in which it plans to spend $75 million.

It's targeting races in Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada and Arizona, which were chosen for their density of important contests up and down the ballot (they also happen to be 2020 battlegrounds). The group will also get involved later in the year in key House contests, too.

But Priorities is beginning to ramp up for 2020 now, so it can transition as seamlessly as possible to the presidential contest after the midterms without winding down.

This is just their strategy for 2019-2020. Which I think is pretty smart.