Former Sen. Harry Reid spent his career painstakingly building a political machine for the Democratic Party in Nevada that has largely taken over the formerly reliably red state.
On Monday, Reid watched all his hard work unravel after the far-Left swept to power in every single major party leadership position.
Socialists officially took over the Democratic Party in Nevada after the head of the Clark County Democratic Party was elected as the chair of the Nevada State Democratic Party.
A Democratic civil war erupted almost immediately.
“Not long after Judith Whitmer won her election on Saturday to become chair of the Nevada Democratic Party, she got an email from the party’s executive director, Alana Mounce. The message from Mounce began with a note of congratulations, before getting to her main point,” The National Review wrote.
“She was quitting. So was every other employee. And so were all the consultants. And the staff would be taking severance checks with them, thank you very much.”
Judith Whitmer defeated Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom 248-216 during a virtual election on Saturday in which the state party’s governing members picked new officers.
Both Whitmer and Segerblom are socialists who supported Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential runs.
Sanders lost the state’s Democratic presidential primary in 2016 to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. But the so-called “Berniecrats” won the state handily for Sanders in the 2020 primary.
Reid’s establishment allies had prepared for the loss. Not only did they all quit immediately after the results became official, but they’d already transferred $450,000 out of the state party’s coffers and into the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee fund the establishment still controls.
“We weren’t really surprised, in that we were prepared for it,” Whitmer told The Intercept. “But what hit us by surprise and was sort of shocking is that for a slate that claimed that they were all about unity, and kept this false narrative of division going on throughout the entire campaign — in fact they kept intensifying that — that’s what was surprising about it, was the willingness to just walk away, instead of working with us.”
Sanders released a statement congratulating Whitmer and said she knows Democrats must “invest in year-round grassroots organizing focused on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice.”
In addition to Whitmer, Democratic Socialists picked up seats for Jacob Allen as first vice-chair; Dr. Zaffar Iqbal as second vice-chair; Ahmed Ade as secretary; and Lance Arberry as treasurer.
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The Associated Press contributed to this article