The Democratic ‘civil war’ in Ohio

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🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The Democratic establishment dealt a crushing blow to the progressive movement this week in Ohio, where tensions, bad blood and intraparty allegiances were on full display. What can we learn from a special congressional primary that quickly became a national spectacle? And what does it say about the direction of one of the most powerful political forces in Washington: the Congressional Black Caucus? POLITICO's Ally Mutnick performs an autopsy with Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza. Ryan Lizza is a co-author of POLITICO Playbook.Ally Mutnick is campaigns reporter at POLITICO.Adrienne Hurst is a producer for POLITICO audio.Annie Rees is a producer for POLITICO audio.Jenny Ament is senior producer for POLITICO audio.Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO audio. Read more on the Ohio special election from Ally: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/03/shontel-brown-beats-nina-turner-in-key-ohio-primary-502365 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I've been surprised over the last few years how every race I've covered just seems to
0:05.6	be driven by the national conversation.
0:09.4	Yeah, especially local officials were upset that it had turned into a conversation that
0:15.8	they felt like had nothing to do with Northeast Ohio.
0:19.4	It's August.
0:20.4	It's over 90 degrees in D.C. and there aren't a lot of elections happening, except in Ohio.
0:27.7	The results are in for two Ohio Special Elections primaries.
0:31.1	Ohio, Ohio.
0:32.1	Ohio, it really is interesting seeing how this played out in Ohio, right?
0:34.9	We were all watching this.
0:36.6	And even though these were two tiny little primaries, they became the subject of national
0:42.7	attention.
0:43.7	But at the same time, they both leaned into it and both campaigns played a role in nationalizing
0:48.3	it.
0:49.3	We're all looking to what this battering of races around the country, and they really
0:53.3	don't have that many of them to test our various hypotheses about where American politics
0:59.0	is headed and what may happen in next year's midterms.
1:03.4	So that's why everyone who thinks and talks about American politics was focused this week
1:09.4	on Ohio.
1:10.4	In the Democratic Party, you at least have a battle going on about who's going to control
1:14.8	it.
1:15.8	I'm going to tell Brown's explanation tonight.
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