The Daily 202: Democratic committees divided over playing in primaries, with Texas as ground zero
Democratic committees divided over playing in primaries, with Texas as ground zero Jim Mathis places a campaign sign near a polling site in San Antonio. The Texas primaries are Tuesday. (Eric Gay/AP) BY JAMES HOHMANN with Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve THE BIG IDEA: The first primaries of 2018 in Texas on Tuesday could set the tune for six months of Democratic infighting. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has been taking fire from the left since publishing opposition research on Laura Moser, a progressive candidate in a crowded Democratic primary field to take on Rep. John Culberson (R). The campaign arm for House Democrats concluded that Moser could not win the general election in a suburban Houston district that Hillary Clinton narrowly carried. Among other things, she wrote a piece for Washingtonian magazine in 2014 that said she’d “sooner have my teeth pulled out without anesthesia” than move to her grandparents’ home in rural T...