2024 is too soon. It’s the very next election. They need to establish positions in congress first. Or they are just trying to parachute into the CEO job and will hand it to those farthest from their ideas, as did Perot, Nader and Sanders.
Or John Anderson, for that matter. I'm old enough to remember a joke about the 1980 Presidential campaign that it was like a Grecian Formula hair-dye commercial. Anderson: no dye, Carter: some dye, Reagan: all dye.
Build the base. Build the legislatures, the school boards, the county boards and the town boards. Build that. Take the time to do it solid. Caucus with the party most like you until you are sure you can absolutely, on your own, beat the party least like you. Until then. Coalition and build.
I agree.
Brand New Congress has more of a sense of strategy than what I've seen from the MPP so far. Here's why I say that. In early 2016, Bernie Sanders's first Presidential campaign was winding down. Some of his campaigners thought of what to do next. They decided that a good President would not be anything without a good Congress, something likely provoked by watching what trouble Congress was for President Obama. So they decided to campaign for the election of Congresspeople.
BNC's founders originally wanted to run BNC as a European-style political party, with unified messaging. But they saw how little success third parties have had in the US, so they decided not to create a new party. Instead, most of their candidates would run as Democrats and Republicans, as appropriate, with some of them being Independents.
They wanted to run a candidate for every available Congressional seat: all 435 House seats and 33 or 34 Senate seats, but they were unable to recruit the necessary number of candidates in time for 2018, the first opportunity. They settled for 30 candidates, 28 Democrats, 1 Republican, and 1 Independent. Of the major-party candidates, only 9 Democrats and no Republicans won their primaries. Only one candidate won in the general election, one of the Democrats: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
She won in good part because she ran as a Democrat. This made it easy for her to win the general election, because her district, NY-14, votes heavily Democratic. That also meant that she had to win the primary, and that was a major struggle for her and her campaigners, even with incumbent Joe Crowley's complacency and neglect of his district.
She was joined by Ayanna Pressley in 2018, and she will likely be joined by Marie Newman, Jamaal Bowman, and Cori Bush this year.