Five-term congressman tells Democrats to stop ‘intramural finger-pointing’ over Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe’s defeat California Representative Eric Swalwell on Friday called on members of his party to stop the “intramural finger-pointing” over Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe’s loss and start hitting back at Republicans for being in denial over the 6 January insurrection and the existence of racism in the US.
Writing in The Independent, Mr Swalwell — a Democrat who has represented parts of the San Francisco Bay area since 2013 — said his colleagues should “show no patience for this naysaying gloom that Democratic electoral losses in 2022 and 2024 are a fait accompli,” and called the fight over who is to blame for Mr McAuliffe’s loss “a circular firing squad that benefits only our opponents”.
The former presidential candidate said Democrats should instead focus on how President Joe Biden’s policies have made the US “safer and stronger than it was a year ago” by curbing the Covid-19 pandemic and reviving the US economy, while speaking honestly about the Republican penchant for appeals to racial resentment.
