Rep. Conor Lamb (D-Pa.), a moderate running for the U.S. Senate, tweeted this week that he’s a “normal Democrat.”
He contrasted himself with those who “didn’t help with infrastructure.”
Lamb told Axios he sees some members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus — including Reps. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) and Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the caucus chair — as “active progressives who can go into a meeting with someone else in the caucus and talk policy and talk substance and understand the importance of compromise.”
Lamb said, by contrast, a group of lawmakers identified with “socialists” who voted last week against the $1.2 trillion roads-and-bridges package, “doesn’t help” Democrats.
Another swing-district Democrat, Rep. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia, used the “normal” word after her party lost the governor’s race in her home state last Tuesday.
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