Josh Ling @ Adopt Me!

2 of these are the CA-39 and the CA-49, where too many Dem candidates may split the vote, allowing GOP candidates to finish #1 and #2 in the primary, shutting out Dems in the general. It’s time for trailing Dem candidates to consider stepping aside so we can flip these seats.https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/998949829253500928 …

The risks here are real, I understand, but I have a hard time with us discouraging Democrats from running for office. In doing so, too often we end up going with the "most likely to win," which for many years has been the white dude.

We’ve both been on campaigns when internal polling shows there’s little chance of the candidate winning. In some of these races the lead candidate may be a woman - I don’t know because I haven’t seen the internals. But the campaigns have. They know their chances.

I would never want to discourage anyone from running but these races are special cases. I’d rather 3rd and 4th place candidates step aside for the good of the party than see Republicans win the seats and possibly keep the House. Wouldn’t you?

Well, first, we can all agree this jungle primary thing is a mess. But I struggle with this question because it's not too far off what women candidates have heard for years--just wait until later, if you primary them it will hurt our chances, etc.

I'm also glad that we're seeing Dem groups attack the Republicans. That's one good way to depress their vote.