DNC chair cites 'unprecedented collaboration' among Democrats to win White House, Congressv

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Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Jaime Harrison on Sunday revealed some of the strategy behind Democrats’ goal to win control of the House, as well as hold onto the White House and Senate.

“For three and a half years we’ve been focused on pouring resources into all of our states. A lot of people look at Howard Dean’s fifty-state strategy as the Golden Age for the DNC in terms of investing in those state parties,” Harrison said on MSNBC’s “The Weekend” on Sunday.

“We, in our midterms, we put 40% more into state parties,” he said. “We created a red state fund than what Howard Dean did in 2006, and so we’ve been focused on that, and that’s thanks to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in helping us garner the resources to do just that.”

Harrison said there’s been “unprecedented collaboration” between the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), the Democratic Governors Association (DGA), and the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC).

He is on a Signal messaging chain with DSCC Chair Sen. Gary Peters, D-Michigan, and DCCC Chair Rep. Suzan DeBene, D-Wash., Harrison told MSNBC, adding that “the three of us stay in close collaboration” to look at polling, notice traction and “red alerts” on certain issues as Election Day approaches.

“Our staffs also work very closely together, and I don’t think that has happened historically in the past in the Democratic ecosystem,” Harrison said. “So we are all aligned, we are all on one page, we’re in formation, we are focused like a laser on not just winning the White House back, but making sure that the House, the Senate, we pick up gubernatorial elections, that we flip some state House seats, and that is all in alignment, and again, we’re going to be focused on that from now until Election Day, as we’ve been focused on it for the last three and a half years.”