The job of an elected official is to communicate, to talk with constituents, to talk with the people of America, and I think Alexandria is excellent at doing that. Saikat Chakrabarti Read Quote
Similar to how ‘Abolish ICE’ rang the bell on this huge crisis on immigration, unifying around not taking corporate-PAC money gets everybody to pay attention to big money in politics. Saikat Chakrabarti Read Quote
People are realizing that the winning message is the progressive message. Saikat Chakrabarti Read Quote
I co-managed AOC’s campaign alongside Vigie Ramos Rios and also was the one that managed the launch of her initial campaign in 2017. Saikat Chakrabarti Read Quote
For background, Brand New Congress was created in the summer of 2016 with the goal of recruiting 400 candidates to run for Congress with a national campaign and a clear set of policies they would advocate for. It was an attempt to create, as per the name, a brand new Congress. Saikat Chakrabarti Read Quote
It’s fairly common for new members of Congress to hire their former campaign managers onto their official staff. Saikat Chakrabarti Read Quote
There’s a whole pipeline for where people recruit current Hill staff from, and it’s people who go through a kind of ideological training that’s incorrect, I’d say, and so there’s a lot of work to do, and Justice Democrats is trying to figure out where it fits. Saikat Chakrabarti Read Quote
