Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz Has a Tough Fall Ahead Facing Primary Debates & Iran Deal Support

[KoKo]

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz has a tough fall ahead.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) chief is under fire from some of the top Democratic presidential hopefuls over her handling of the primary debates, and she's facing a huge decision in whether to support President Obama's historic nuclear deal with Iran.

Those issues highlight the difficulties facing the six-term Florida Democrat as she juggles her responsibilities to the president she supports, the constituents she represents and the broader party she's leading into the high-stakes 2016 elections.

Wasserman Schultz's primary role as DNC head is to devise a campaign message that unifies the Democrats and distinguishes their priorities from those of the Republicans in the eyes of voters. But both the debate controversy and the Iran vote have distracted from that objective, threatening to undermine the show of Democratic unity even as party leaders are calling attention to the deep divisions in the GOP.

The DNC stirred a hornet's nest in May when it announced a six-debate schedule through the primary season — roughly a quarter of the 2008 total and half the number available to the Republican candidates this cycle.

The Democratic underdogs — notably Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley — wasted no time hammering the schedule as insufficient. The contenders want more opportunities to face off with frontrunner Hillary Clinton, and their criticisms have only escalated this month after the DNC released more details surrounding the debates.

Sanders on Sunday accused the DNC of being "dead wrong" in its debate strategy, while O'Malley charged the leaders of his own party with pushing a “rigged process” designed to advantage Clinton.

“I think it’s a big mistake for us as a party to circle the wagons around the inevitable front-runner,” O’Malley said last week.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/house/252609-dnc-chief-faces-perilous-fall

[LettuceSea]

1. "DWS" and "unifies" in the same sentence

OUT!

[The Polack MSgt]

2. The debate schedule isn't the issue

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The debate schedule is not the problem.
Or more accurately is not the root of the problems (plural). The issues are her poor strategic thinking, her focus on gathering huge stacks of cash to dole out to blue dogs and D.I.N.O.s and her disloyalty to the sitting POTUS.
Trying to grease the skids for her preferred candidate is a symptom of the disease, not the disease itself

[99th_Monkey]

3. The dearth of Dem debates is a colossal blunder, or maybe deliberate sabotage

but a disaster for the Democrats never-the-less, including Hillary Clinton.

While the too-few/too-late scheduling may in some ways help Hillary hold onto
her lead in the polls a bit longer, it hurts the Democratic Party as a whole, by keeping
the focus on Hillary's email "scandal" (which I call the non-scandal), and allowing
the M$M to continue to pretend Bernie Sanders doesn't exist; while covering
Donald Trump 24/7.

The bottom line here is that issues voters really care about are conveniently NOT
getting onto the airwaves, at all. Nada.

[hedda_foil]

5. I doubt if she makes that decision alone.

There are no doubt many corpodem strategists, advisors, and officials involved ...no doubt including Hillary's campaign strategists, who may be even worse than the campaign team she assembled in 2008. It doesn't speak well of her ability to pick a good people or make good decisions.

[MoveIt]

4. The worst dnc chair