Enraged Democratic candidates turn on their leaders: "You've got to be able to fight ugly"

Democratic congressional candidates nationwide, feeding off voter fury, are raging against their leadership and vowing ruthlessness against their own establishment. • "I am not a 'when they go low, we go high' [person]. I'm not that kind of girl," Texas state Rep. Jolanda Jones, who is running in a November special election for a safely Democratic U.S. House seat, told Axios. "If they go low, I'm going to the gutter."

State of play: Axios interviewed dozens of Democratic congressional candidates — some challenging longtime Democratic incumbents, others running in open primaries in blue or purple seats. • What was consistent across many of those interviews was a notion that the Democratic party establishment has not met the moment since President Trump returned to office in January.