Such tactics go beyond the 2016 fallout to the kind of negative campaigning that is why 'so many people are disgusted with politics,' Sanders said in an interview with The Associated Press. Sanders, whose Our Revolution group endorsed Moser, called the party's attack 'appalling.' The national campaign group published an opposition research memo calling her 'a Washington insider who begrudgingly moved to Texas to run for Congress' and targeted her for once joking that she'd rather have 'my teeth pulled out without anesthesia' than live in small-town Texas. In Houston, Moser advanced to the May 22 runoff despite opposition from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. But with so many Democratic candidates in so many districts, party power brokers may try and tip the scales, sometimes with clumsy results.

Party leaders believe frustration with President Donald Trump, coupled with a surge of energized female candidates, could spell a banner midterm election season. The tensions clouding the upcoming runoff between the party's top two candidates in the Houston district - corporate attorney Lizzie Pannill Fletcher and activist Laura Moser - could shadow other House races nationwide. Aside from the normal conflicts of ambition and personality, there's a more significant Democratic rift lingering from the 2016 presidential primary between the party's Bernie Sanders progressive wing and its Hillary Clinton establishment. Bush to Congress in 1967 - the kind of race they'll have to win for any hope of retaking the House in the November midterms.īut their new opportunities, here and in other states, sometimes have them going after each other instead of the Republicans, and that could spoil their chances.

AUSTIN (AP) - Democrats are salivating at the prospect of flipping a wealthy Houston enclave that has been solidly Republican since sending George H.W.

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