I think I've told this story before, but I have a friend who worked in the digital media production world, and his company produced digital media content with a leftist/liberal spin. They were approached by some of the younger, feistier Dem congressional candidates to produce campaign content. Aimed at the youth, and edgier than typical political advertisements. Pelosi got wind of it and told the candidates they could only use the "approved" content creators and that if they went ahead with their own content, there would be financial repercussions down the road. They all backed out.
Bethany Johnson (running for Dem seat in Illinois) just did an AMA on Reddit and delivered this answer. Would like to see more of this:
I'm not. I'm running to Represent District 9. I don't give a good goddamn what Republicans want. This isn't a district where Republicans live. Nobody asks Republicans in Oklahoma how they're going to represent progressives in big cities, but I seem to get your question over and over again.
I'm not going to represent their values, and I couldn't give less of a shit about them. Now, if a Republican here in this district needs help from the Constituent office? Oh, we'll help them like they've never been helped before. But I don't care about their values. This is a job to Represent the people of District 9.
I don't see that happening, to be honest. I live in a very progressive District. I'm running to represent this very progressive District.