‘Let’s get a drink’: Dems confront prospect of a 2022 hurricane

Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison speaks with reporters in front of a bus that reads “Build Back Better.” | Michelle Liu/AP Photo

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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Democratic Party leaders moved quietly this week to lower expectations for the midterm elections as they met for year-end talks against the backdrop of an increasingly bleak electoral landscape.

The House? Likely gone. The Senate? A crapshoot.

Interviews with more than two dozen state party chairs, executive directors and strategists suggest party officials are reframing the 2022 election as a defensive effort, with success defined as maintaining the Democratic Senate majority and holding back a Republican tide

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