BradCast' 2/27/2018 (Guest: Howie Klein of 'Down With Tyranny!')
Democrats appear confident that the 2018 mid-terms could be a 'Blue Wave' election, but they were also confident they'd defeat Donald Trump for the Presidency in 2016. Democrats are having problems with each other, as intra-party turmoil between the party's conservative establishment wing and its growing progressive wing rears its ugly head again: late last week, the conservative Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) unleashed a remarkable attack against a progressive House candidate in a primary fight in Texas; in California, the state Democratic Party convention failed to endorse 4-term U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein in her reelection bid against her challenger, progressive state Senate leader Kevin de Leon. Progressive advocate and Congressional elections expert HOWIE KLEIN, creator of the \u2018Down With Tyranny!' blog and co-founder of the BlueAmericaPAC, warns that there are many more such attacks to come against progressive candidates by the DCCC this campaign season. He also speaks to what he sees as the solution to the DCCC's right-wing bent, and whether bitterly divided Democratic voters will find a way to unite this year in order to retake majorities in one or both houses of Congress. Also today: presidential son-in-law and top Trump advisor Jared Kushner loses his Top Secret security clearance; new revelations add to the growing list Republican candidates with disturbing sex, racism and hypocrisy scandals running for office.