WASHINGTON — Democratic Nationwide Committee Chair Jaime Harrison defended himself and struck again at critics Saturday evening, simply hours after NBC Information printed an article describing the rising friction between him and White Home officers over his function.
“There’s a number of unnamed bulls— in politics, however nobody can ever say that I don’t work my ass off for what I imagine in,” Harrison wrote in the first of eight threaded tweets.
NBC Information reported that Harrison is deeply annoyed with the boundaries the White Home has placed on his authority, sufficient that he has thought of leaving earlier than November’s midterms, in keeping with two folks accustomed to the scenario. On the similar time, White Home officers need Harrison to journey extra outdoors his dwelling state of South Carolina for political and fundraising occasions, NBC Information reported.
The article was based mostly on interviews with greater than two dozen Democrats, together with present and former White Home and get together officers. Most of them would converse solely on the situation of anonymity, and a few of them pointed to the severity of the strain as a symptom of President Joe Biden’s low approval rankings and muddled messaging.
The article additionally reported deep frustration amongst Democrats that the White Home’s political operation has failed to speak a coherent message to state events.
“My hope is that individuals who have time to have interaction within the rumor mills and this and that may truly use that vitality to register a number of extra voters,” Harrison, responding to the criticism, informed NBC Information in an interview.
In his Twitter thread response, Harrison provided an inventory of his highlights as DNC chair, together with elevating roughly $150 million in 2021 — a file for the primary yr after a presidential election — and finance conferences in California, New York, Illinois and Washington, D.C., and tons of of digital occasions with state events.
He quoted his grandfather as saying that if an individual is not prepared to place their identify on criticism, it is not price saying.
“To unnamed sources,” Harrison wrote within the remaining tweet, “should you count on me to go away or roll right into a ball and whimper…you picked the improper one.” He added that his focus is “upending” the GOP.
“You may have the mission, now get with this system!” Harrison wrote earlier than together with a GIF of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson saying “Not in the present day.”
— by way of www.nbcnews.com
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