Where “Stuff Gets Done” – POLITICO Highlights How Democrats Learned “To Love the State Capitals”

Where “Stuff Gets Done” – POLITICO Highlights How Democrats Learned “To Love the State Capitals”  

A new article from POLITICO Nightly highlights how Vice President Kamala Harris’ selection of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate, along with three consecutive cycles of major electoral and policy victories from our nation’s Democratic governors, are the “capstone of an effort to reinvigorate” the Democratic Party by increasingly focusing on the importance of electing governors. 

POLITICO writes: “The past six years of Democratic state wins has reawakened the party to the idea that perhaps D.C. is not where the action is. If voters are frustrated by Washington gridlock, the governors say, they should instead turn their eyes toward their blue capitals for a vision of what could be.” 

POLITICO also touted how “it was policy wins for Democratic governors that fueled their rise,” noting a number of dynamic and history-making Democratic governors make up the party’s “future bench of young leaders” that “excited party operatives and donors.” 

Former DGA Chair and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said of the renewed support for our Democratic governors “that folks out here are pretty tired of dysfunction in Congress. And some of the folks who are most engaged are turning back toward the governors to try and get things done.”

Click here to read the full piece from POLITICO on how “Democrats have learned to stop worrying and love the states.”

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