Eugene DePasquale has one overriding goal as he takes on his new role leading the Pennsylvania Democratic Party: win.

That was his succinct answer to a question on goals Monday as he met with the PennLive editorial board to outline the plans that he and other Democratic strategists are positioning on the political chessboard ahead of a series of consequential election cycles: November’s state Supreme Court judicial retention election and the state gubernatorial race next year, followed by the general election two years later.

“Look, there is no perfect campaign. I don’t want to be flip about this,” DePasquale said. “So that is my agenda — to win....In every campaign, you do maybe a gazillion things right and a gazillion things wrong. But at the end of the day, the goal is to win thes

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