Freshman Democrats Prove Unusually Defiant

“House Democrats’ incoming freshman class is barely a week old and already threatening to defy party leaders in ways most of their incumbent colleagues wouldn’t dare,” Axios reports.

Said Rep.-elect Don Leonard (D-OH): “My class is huge not because of the Democratic Party and its brand but despite it. Many of us are outsiders who didn’t come up through the machine, don’t buy into the conventions.”