Howard Dean: The Dems Need a ‘Complete Reboot,’ ‘Don’t Run Enough Local Candidates,’ It’s ‘Insane’

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DEAN: "The Democrats need to have a complete reboot. They’ve been functioning inside the beltway, and that’s what their tendency is. That’s what everybody’s tendency is, to function inside the beltway. The Republicans actually, for 20 years, have been building outside the beltway with their gazillions of dollars from all the billionaires whose taxes they’re now cutting. The Democrats haven’t done that. This is not an inside-the-beltway fight. This is an outside-the-beltway fight. And, you know, the name 'Democrat' has been branded really badly, and we don’t run enough local candidates to unbrand it. We leave whole swaths of legislative seats unchallenged in red states. That is insane. People are never going to get to know the Democratic Party and who we really are unless the Democrat's knocking on your doors. And I’m not talking about four weeks before a presidential election. We need to be in every election, including school boards and city councils.”