At a meeting of Democratic Party activists in Phoenix on Saturday, participants discussed how to keep the supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders, pictured above in May 2016. “This is a ‘where were you?’ moment,” said Thomas Perez, the outgoing labor secretary, kicking off the party’s “future forum,” and referring to the challenge posed by a Trump presidency. In addition to Buttigieg, who has pitched himself as the candidate of neither the “Berniecrats” or the party’s establishment, the Democratic race includes Idaho Democratic executive director Sally Boynton Brown; Ray Buckley, the chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party; Jaime Harrison, South Carolina’s chairman; and Jehmu Greene, a media strategist. None has a commanding lead; all have heard DNC members tell them that they need to read their plans and have a few more conversations. The Phoenix forum demonstrated just how much the rival candidates overlapped, with granular pitches to DNC members about how they would help the party rebuild.

Source: Washington Post January 14, 2017 23:50 UTC