“There is no secret for it”: The recruiter of the Haus Democrats, Jason Crow, outlines the way to win | Trail Mix | Columnist

The Colorado Democrat Jason Crow anticipates that the candidates he will recruit to help the party

Crow, who announced his fourth term in a 6th congress district in Colorado policy in Aurora in an interview that he would not be surprised if potential recruits in important districts were considered as if he were crazy if he suggested that they could run for the congress.

“And frankly, that’s the answer I am looking for, isn’t it?” Said the 46-year-old army eranan, who was appointed co-chair of the democratic congress campaign committee, who was responsible for recruitment. “To do this job, it has to be a service, right? And the service implies victims. You can’t want you to do something to get it because we are full of such people in Washington. And when we get these types of people, we see what they are ready to hold on to the job to sell their souls to sell their souls.

The recruitment of candidates is expected to play a key role in the 2026 elections, as the Democrats are preparing to defend 13 house seats in Donald Trump districts, while only three Republicans represent Kamala Harris. The GOP currently has a majority of 218-213 in the house-like majority of a party since the early 1930s, although outstanding special elections to fill vacancies, could increase the border of the Republicans by an additional seat.

While the Senate is not taken into account in the game, the Democrats only have to turn a handful of seats to win the majority in the house and enable the party to check the Republicans. But when the number of true swing distributors disappears, the party does not rely on the historical medium -term dynamics if the party that controls the White House usually loses seats.

Crow said he expected to make some beliefs.

“What we want are people who hesitate to do it,” he said. “And then there is actually no elevator stand. It is just honesty to tell you what it really looks like to drive a race.”

Eight years as a top DCCC recruit eight years ago, before the first Trump medium, the political beginner explained his offer to dismiss the five-term republican Mike Coffman in a district that had never previously chosen as a democrat, said Crow, he planned to convey the size of a decision in order to advertise a competitive seat in these sacred times.

“I threw my place in 2018. It was a violent street fight, a hard fight, and that’s hard for families and that’s hard for candidates,” he said. “So to be honest with you what to expect, tell you what support will be there for you and what you have to do to win.”

He described a pitch that, after a PEP conversation, sounds the farthest that is most widespread after the most widespread.

“And then I will say: ‘Listen, it won’t be easy. It will be really difficult. It could be one of the most difficult things you’ve ever done. But you know I don’t ask you to storm the beaches of Normandy for our country. I ask you to throw your hat into the ring. Your country needs you.”

On the second day of the political withdrawal of the Haus democrats, Crow spoke when the party members had the chance to get their collective breath continuous, aggressive steps of the Trump government after weeks, which deals with the opposition’s reaction.

“What are the things we have to fix that we have learned from the last election?” Crow said he and his with Democrats had thought. “How can we break through in areas of the country and in the communities that have turned away from us? And how do we win elections so that we can restore this administration’s review and our communities against what has been an incredible attack by this administration – to the veteran advantages, to our democracy and so many other species that affect our communities difficult to defend.”

There are no quick lurks that are just waiting to be discovered, he said.

“There is no slogan or car sticker or T-shirt that will win the day throughout America, right?” Said crow. “The thing of the repetition of the House of Representatives is that each district is unique and different. And that will be a battle that will be won or lost at the local district level.”

Crow said he planned to rely on colleagues across the country to identify potential candidates, since “nobody knows their states better than these people”.

Crow calls his upcoming recruitment effort “a collaborative process and an opportunity to talk to (colleagues) about what their states and communities need” and said his conclusion comes from experience.

“I never like it when there are people in Colorado parachute and interfere in politics in Colorado, and they don’t like it either,” he said.

Crow added that he would rely on locals to get instructions on how to train people who may be reluctant to use an office because we honestly honestly the people we need in many of these communities – these are districts that vote for Trump or have republican members of the congress in many cases – the people who need to run these seats and run on the way. “

Crow said that he is expecting many potential candidates to speak who are not career politicians.

“They are not people who have been running for office for a decade,” he said. “These are generally people who are fighter veterans who are retired police officers or firefighters who are small business owners, and we sometimes have to go into their living room and sit down and tell them why they should increase and serve their country.”

He said he had no simple formula to search for the ideal candidate.

“There is no secret.

Then Crow sketched a message that he has improved for years.

“We are the working class party. We are the fairness party to achieve the competitive conditions, and we will not guarantee the results for people. We are not trying to enforce a certain result. We try to ensure that people who are willing to do work or possibly need help if they are ready to do this, and we will be there for you.”

Ernest Luning has dealt with the politics of Colorado and his predecessor publication, The Colorado Statesman, since 2009. He has analyzed the exploits, weaknesses and history of state campaigns and politicians in the weekly trail mix -column since 2018.