Former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has defeated her Primary challenger.

[Slutty Mathlete]

Debbie Wasserman Shultz is best known as the former Chair of the Democratic National Committee who was forced to step down after email leaks showed the DNC staff discussed ways to favor Hillary Clinton in this years Democratic Presidential Primary.

 

Wasserman Schultz decisively defeated challenger Tim Canova in Tuesday's Democratic congressional primary, a victory she called "incredibly sweet and satisfying."

 

Canova spent months telling Democratic voters in the Broward/Miami-Dade County 23rd Congressional District that Wasserman Schultz was a tool of corporate special interests who, in his view, was "not fit to represent the district."

 

Just five weeks ago, cable TV talking heads were offering up Wasserman Schultz's political obituary, suggesting she needed to depart the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia and rush home to fend off the challenge from Canova. Wasserman Schultz laid low for 10 days, then burst back on the scene in South Florida with a frenzy of political activity.

 

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton; Vice President Joe Biden; House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi; Georgia Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis; and former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, a longtime friend of Wasserman Schultz who was severely wounded in a 2011 assassination attempt all spent time in Florida campaigning for Wasserman Schultz in her district.

 

Wasserman Schultz is now almost guaranteed to retain her seat in congress in the heavily Democratic 23rd Congressional District in Broward/Miami-Dade County.

 

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-august-primary-us-house-20160830-story.html

[gretchen]

These have been some pretty bad primaries, if only Bernie supporters actually voted instead of complaining on the internet like they always do. 

[Deâ„“phina]

The DNC is basically Joanne the Scammer in public persona form, bless

[SheeraEtheral]

Ew

[Vaelin]

Who voted for her? Her party should not support her after what happened.

[KokoKringles]

Trash.

[Slutty Mathlete]

Who voted for her? Her party should not support her after what happened.

The short answer is 57% of the registered Democrats that voted in the election. The longer answer is that Democrats tend to be more practical. We as a group don't let ideological purity ruin the real chance to rule and thus get better policy through incremental change. That's why Canova lost and it's why Bernie Sanders lost. We need voices like those to keep the fire under more mainstream Democrats, but the hard work of actual governance will always be done better by more pragmatic politicians who remember that you are still the representative of the people that didn't vote for you as well as those who did.

 

TLDR: Democrats will not let the lefts version of the Tea Party destroy the party the way Republicans have.