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Some well-financed progressive candidates went 0-for-5 in House “bellwether” races on Nov. 3 as a projected "blue wave" for Democrats became an Election Day disappointment.

The inability of the far-left candidates, as well as some moderate Democrats, to ride the coattails of President-elect Joe Biden into victories of their own left some Democrats -- from far-left firebrand U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York to moderate U.S. Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia -- frustrated and searching for answers.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, meanwhile, wasn't ready to take any blame.

"I accept credit for winning the majority and holding the House," Pelosi told reporters during a Capitol Hill news conference Friday.

Some of the Democrats' losses can be blamed on weak online campaigning, despite having plenty of cash on hand, Ocasio-Cortez told The New York Times.

“I’ve looked through a lot of these campaigns that lost, and the fact of the matter is, if you’re not spending $200,000 on Facebook with fundraising, persuasion, volunteer recruitment, get-out-the-vote the week before the election, you are not firing on all cylinders,” she said. “And not a single one of these campaigns were firing on all cylinders.”

The Democratic losses in the House were "just extraordinarily upsetting to all of us,” Ocasio-Cortez told one constituent. “It’s upsetting to all of us who are invested in having a Democratic majority so that we can expand health care, so that we can raise wages, so that we can protect working people.”

Source: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-dems-backslide-upsetting-for-aoc-while-pelosi-claims-credit-for-keeping-majority

Source: https://www.npr.org/2020/11/15/934586955/house-democrats-dissect-what-went-wrong-and-how-to-rebound-from-losses

Source: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/526012-here-are-the-15-gop-women-newly-elected-to-the-house-this-year

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