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“The more things change, the more they stay the same,” French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Kerr said in 1849.

The co-founder of the centrist billionaire funded Welcome PAC, Liam Kerr, even walked out on stage wearing a Joe Manchin West Virginia University Mountaineers football jersey, before delivering an opening statement in front of slides which surmised the group’s vision for the party going forward as “dogs,” referencing Blue Dogs; “data”; and “Slotkin,” referring to the freshman senator from Michigan, Elissa Slotkin, who Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has taken a shine to.

Kerr, the co-founder of the Welcome Party’s PAC, when asked by Salon what happens when public opinion shifts on an issue, and whether Democrats should adopt a new position to reflect that shift, called the conundrum a “classic political theory question.”

But also you have to get elected in the first place,” Kerr said in an email.

The day began with Liam Kerr, co-founder of the organizing Welcome PAC, donning a custom-made football jersey.