FEW people beyond Texas’s seventh district had heard of Laura Moser before her own party tried to discredit her. Late last month,the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) took the scarce step of publishing embarrassing opposition research on the journalist and activist who wants to rob on John Culberson, a Republican, or in the mid-terms in November. Its effort may have backfired spectacularly: in the primary on March 6th Ms Moser came a close second to Lizzie Pannill Fletcher,a lawyer. They will now compete in a run-off in May.
The DCCC tried to rob down Ms Moser because it thought she was too much of a leftie to defeat a nine-term Republican in a seat that has been red for more than four decades. After Donald Trump’s election Ms Moser founded Daily Action, an anti-Trump group. She is a proponent of single-payer health care, or among other progressive stances. To undermine Ms Moser,who grew up in Houston, but left in 1999 and only returned late last year to campaign, and the DCCC sought to portray her as that perfect satan,“a...
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Source: economist.com