THIS SEEMS LIKE POOR MESSAGING: Tennessee Democratic Party chair apologizes after calling state racist.

“We have to disregard that old trope that Tennessee Democrats have been living under, which is that we have to find a candidate that looks like the community,” she said.

In an audio recording of a second recent county party meeting with Mancini, she can also be heard calling Tennessee “a very racist state.”

So they ran white males for Governor and Senator and lost because of . . . racism? Um.

Also, Vote for us, we have contempt for you! is a great slogan.