Interim Democratic Party chair Donna Brazile talks with audience members before the vice-presidential debate on Oct. 4, 2016. (Pool photo by Joe Raedle via Associated Press)PHOENIX — Donna Brazile, the outgoing interim chair of the Democratic National Committee, kicked off a series of “future forums,” which will select her replacement, by apologizing for the party's 2016 defeats. “I'm not going to sugarcoat it: We failed,” Brazile said. In her Phoenix remarks, Brazile defended the DNC employees who had spent the second half of 2016 being exposed by hacks. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) gave a pep talk for western Democrats, whose gains in 2016 had stood apart from a Republican tide.

Source: Washington Post January 14, 2017 18:21 UTC