How do they plot their comeback when they barely acknowledge why they lost?
From despair to action: Democrats plot their comeback
Democratic officials are combing through granular election data, reevaluating their digital strategy and reaching out to Donald Trump’s voters as they attempt to pull themselves out of the political wilderness.
In 27 interviews across half a dozen states, the party’s elected officials, labor leaders and strategists described widespread acknowledgment that Democrats must win back working-class voters, particularly Latino men, and others without college degrees who helped hand the election to Trump. And in anguished conversations in the halls of Congress and state party headquarters from coast to coast, despair over the scale of Democrats’ losses are giving way to plans to combat their crisis.
From mill towns in the swing state of Pennsylvania to Latino neighborhoods in bustling New York City, a refrain is crescendoing: The Democratic Party, which lost the presidential popular vote for the first time in 20 years, desperately needs an overhaul. And while party elders in the nation’s capital begin to debate their path as Republicans prepare to control every branch of government, state leaders are drafting their own autopsies.
Will they start talking about getting tough on illegal aliens? How about shifting from supporting women instead of men with mental illness who take the spots of actual women? Become pro-business? Pro low taxation and government? Aren’t these the same people who denigrate those in small towns and middle America as rubes in Flyover country? Hate on Christians and Southerners?
Two swing-seat Democrats who outperformed Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania and New York are urging their colleagues to lean into economic issues and border security concerns that rank top of mind for voters — and ones Republicans have effectively wielded to ignite their base and lure swing voters.
Rep. Chris Deluzio, the only swing- district House Democrat in Pennsylvania who kept his seat this year, overperformed Harris in deep-red Beaver County, particularly in old mill and factory towns.
No one actually believes this will happen, do they? Also, for those like those “swing seat Democrats”, will they actually vote the way they campaigned, or will ones like Deluzio vote hard left after campaigning more like Trump?
Back in state party headquarters across the country, Democratic officials are poring over the details of their losses in search of solutions. East Coast labor leaders are making plans to travel to Middle America to connect with voters who have left their party in the Trump era in hopes of recalibrating ahead of the 2026 midterms.
The ones these East Coast labor leaders hate?
Rep. Tom Suozzi, a Long Island moderate, beat a Republican this year in a district that was trending red by leaning into the main issue bedeviling his fellow Democrats — immigration. He promised to tighten up the southern border at a time when New York has been a hub for an influx of migrants competing with low-income residents for scarce housing and jobs. He too is urging fellow Democrats to listen to Trump voters.
Will he vote as such? Because there’s the rub: if they campaign more like a Republican but vote like a Democrat that will be remembered. Also, it can drive their unhinged Democratic Party base away, even to the point of trying to primary them.
Democrats also plan to look to their deep bench of governors and emphasize populist pocketbook policies — from expanding access to school lunches to canceling medical debt. Meghan Meehan-Draper, executive director of the Democratic Governors Association, said state leaders will play a leading role in the party’s overhaul.
“They’re the best path forward because they’re the ones focused on things like jobs, health care, public safety, public education, infrastructure,” Meehan-Draper said. “And they’re the last line of defense because they also are focused on protecting their constituents’ fundamental freedoms like reproductive rights, voting rights, upholding the rule of law.”
That doesn’t look much like they’re shifting their beliefs: just how they’ll lie on the campaign trail. And, really, despair will turn to moonbattery.
The knee-pad women, whose name will not be spoken, only stole state elections in states without voter ID. ALL voter ID states she lost.
Neither the erstwhile Repubicuns (currently the Trumpubicuns) nor the Dems are interested in the needs of ALL the American people, or even the majority. The parties are interested in power and are currnently dominated by headstrong extremists – The Wokes vs the MAGAts!! The MAGAts squeaked by in the last election, but of course, declared a mandate, a landslide, a crushing defeat, LOL!
The moderates in either party are outnumbered and outgunned by the zealots! Zealots are good, but not when they are in charge.
1. The American working class needs more (more pay, stable prices, better & affordable healthcare, affordable housing, more hope for the future). The question is how to address those needs.
2. The federal debt is too high. The question is how to address that.
3. All while we assure civil liberties for ALL Americans (whites, blacks, Hispanics, gay, straight, religious, non-religious, trans). But how?
4. Our information ‘technology’ has outstripped us. Hatred has become a valuable commodity.
So, now what?
5. Global warming is real but can’t be seriously addressed until we address 1 and 2.
6. Asshole countries (aka The Sphincter of Earth, i.e., Russia, China, Iran) remain a threat. Cooperation should be favored over confrontation, but it’s not always easy and we must stay leery.
What’s especially ironic is that the Great Replacement Theory is dead!!
Hispanic males like Trump!! If the current ‘illegals’ become citizens they’ll vote Repubicun!!
While Trump now want a Reagan-style amnesty? Stay tuned. We’re in the age of transactional politics.
Ex-president Trump nominated the billionaire, gay, Soros-acolyte, Scott Bessent to be Treasury Secretary. He’s a stock market darling! He formerly supported Gore, the Clintons and Obama. His husband was a NYC prosecutor. They have 2 children.
He pledges to cut the yearly deficit to 3% of GDP, produce 3 more million bbls of oil a day, deregulate and cut taxes. He favors tariffs but believes Trump’s original gambit of universal 20% tariffs will be significantly decreased in negotiations with trading partners.
Massive wealth has no politics!! Our plutocracy is putting billionaires in charge! Will this help the working man?
Exactly who do you think the democrats have had in charge since Obama, farmers and truck drivers? NO! Billionaires, that’s who. I know, they were they good rich guys because they are your rich guys.
I’ve noticed you seem to absolutely hate anyone with wealth who aren’t dems. I think that’s the reason you hate me so much because my parents are rich. There seems a constant undercurrent in your rants pertaining to non-democrat rich people. They are evil. All the while you never do the deep dive on your own.
True-Between heavily blue California and NewYork, Trump picked up almost 3 million more votes than in 2020.
They can plot all they want but they’ll have to do it without the DOJ.
https://mxmnews.com/article/90fcfee8-a27b-4b36-bc06-3d45ed7587eb?missouri-ag-all-doj-employees-involved-in-trump-prosecution-should-be-fired
MAGA47
Such a waste of time and taxpayer’s money.
https://nypost.com/2024/11/25/us-news/jack-smith-files-motion-to-dismiss-jan-6-case-against-donald-trump-before-his-inauguration/