Democratic National Committee chairman TomPerez spoke with gdebenedetti in advance of the first round of debates
Photo: John Minchillo/AP/Shutterstock Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez hasn’t exactly been the most popular figure in Washington since he took over the faltering organization in 2017. But the 2020 cycle has been basically going to plan, Perez insists.
So you’re not actively trying to narrow the field by raising the threshold for qualification for the third debates? This is the biggest presidential primary field ever, by most counts. Does no part of you worry that it’s so big it risks making the process unruly? To the extent that your question is, ‘Am I worried about a brokered convention?,’ I’m not. And I’m not for the following reason: It’s a very front-loaded primary schedule. And, by design, when people are voting in Iowa, they’re gonna be getting their ballots in California, and elsewhere. You can’t win the presidency by running an Iowa-only strategy.
Presumably that’s at least in part also a response to the 2016 experience, when there were famously no climate questions in the general election debates. When you look at Bullock’s protesting his exclusion, or Inslee’s point about a climate debate, or a huge variety of fights in the last two years, are you frustrated that the DNC is this conceptual punching bag?
I think we made real progress in both building the infrastructure and in building trust. We’ve become a fifty-state party again. I was in Kansas two weeks ago, and Kathleen Sebelius said, and I have to agree with her, “We wouldn’t have a Democratic governor but for early investments by the DNC.” So I’m very proud of the fact that we’ve become that fifty-state party. We made more investments in this midterm cycle than ever before, and the beauty of it is those are the gifts that keep on giving.
What do you make of the idea that the DNC needs to be deeply invested in the battleground states right now trying to win over persuadable voters with massive ad campaigns, or being a constant presence for those people, while the candidates are sorting their process out?
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