Center-left Dems won the election of 2018, not the left wing of the party and not the Gang of Four

The moderate squad: swing-state Democrats wary of leftward path

The Gang of Four won in totally safe seats, seats that could have been won, as Nancy Pelosi said, by "a glass of water".

The hard work was done by center-left Democrats flipping seats that had gone to the GOP with the victory of Donald Trump in 2016.

And they are not happy with the large role assigned by the media to the party's left.

Of the 67 Democrats in the 2018 freshman class, roughly one-third are from districts Trump won in 2016.

At a gathering of centrist Democrats last month, Joe Cunningham of South Carolina and Abigail Spanberger of Virginia pleaded with more liberal members of the party to consider how their words might reverberate beyond New York, Detroit or Boston.

“Where we sometimes go wrong is if we allow each other to – or try to – speak for the entire caucus,” Spanberger said, suggesting members bracket comments with “in my district”.

Wexton says Virginia 10, a diverse and affluent district from the suburbs of Washington to the West Virginia border, is not interested in Trump’s outbursts or Democratic drama.

“People want us to do something about health insurance premiums and prescription drug prices, which we are working on,” she said. 

“I don’t hear about socialism. I don’t hear about the Squad.