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The Playbook guide to the midterms

Sep 20, 2022

Eugene Daniels and Ryan Lizza

09/20/22

(Politico Playbook) With 50 days to the election, End Citizens United hosted a “Night for Democracy” reception Monday. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that if Dems pick up seats, they’ll pass the sweeping election reform For the People Act. “The best way to save democracy is to make a decision that money is the root of all evil in politics,” Pelosi said at the event. SPOTTED: Tiffany Muller, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, House Democratic Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Reps. John Sarbanes (D-Md.), Nikema Williams (D-Ga.), Katie Porter (D-Calif.), Chris Pappas (D-N.H.), Mike Levin (D-Calif.), Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.), Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.), David Cicilline (D-R.I.), Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) and Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-N.M.), Gene Karpinski, Jessica Post, Tim Persico, Ramón Cruz, Nathalie Reyes, Jess Mackler, Yasmin Radjy, Shane Larson, Adam Green, Val Hoyle, Maxwell Frost, Max Rose and Don Davis.