#democratic-party

#democratic-party

Too many Democrats still refuse to acknowledge how gravely the party was harmed by a failure to actively oppose genocide. The whole debate about whether the Democratic Party would release its autopsy report on the 2024 presidential election-as it finally did this week -always seemed silly to me. How, I wondered, could a hastily prepared report by a party insider tell us anything we hadn't already known for a very long time?

They are looking at numbers, and the idea that Democrats can't win in Texas, I want to put that to rest. They could very well do it. James Talarico could very well win in Texas, Enten began adding: And I want to use a comparison point with 2018 because there was all this talk about Beto O'Rourke, right? Oh, could he beat Ted Cruz? He could beat Ted. The numbers at this point in that campaign simply put did not support that conclusion. But the numbers at that point absolutely support the conclusion that James Talarico can win.

The two main candidates in the Republican Senate primary are Representative Andy Barr and Daniel Cameron, the former state attorney general. They are looking to replace Mitch McConnell, the former Senate Majority Leader and longest-serving senator in Kentucky history, who is retiring after seven terms. Barr, the front-runner, has been endorsed by President Donald Trump and much of the G.O.P. establishment.

Pelosi appeared at a Chan fundraiser in DC. She allowed Chan to use her photo in campaign ads. And we all knew she would never support Saikat Chakrabarti and wasn't at all pleased with Scott Wiener. The only interesting questions: Why this timing-and what will be the impact on the primary, which is only two weeks away?

“What she just told me is that she's running for reelection ... she's not retiring,” Jones said. Zoom in: Known for her bedazzled outfits and matching cowboy hats, Wilson is a legendary figure in Miami, which, since 1998, she has represented in the Florida House, Florida Senate and then Congress.

That's an understatement. And the reason that most people become a Democrat, at least the reason I did, I think it's true, we don't dislike anybody. We're not against anybody. I mean, when I'm, you know, at my age, it was all White and Black growing up in the Jim Crow South. But I love Israel. I don't get it . And I don t have anything against them. I like Palestinian people. That's some of the nicest people I know.

Well, I mean, you know, in 2016, it was much more about the minimum wage and some other very basic kinds of thing. And now that's, that's just turned into much more standing with like Cuba, standing with Venezuela, standing with the Iranian regime and, and turn that into much more becoming more increasingly anti-American for me. So my views really haven't changed that much, Fetterman replied, adding: Things that, that I supported, I was very supported [sic] about gay rights, you know, thing back in 2013, even before you and I, well, it would have been a couple of years.

Allegheny County Council President Patrick Catena (D) - who is running for a seat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives - sent out mailers last week criticizing his opponent for being supported by an "extreme left group" that supports allowing trans people to participate in sports.

The contributing writer Peter Slevin met with Barack Obama at the new Obama Presidential Center, which opens next month, in Chicago, and asked him the question on a lot of Democrats' minds: Where is he, and why isn't he doing more to help the country in a moment of crisis? Slevin shares excerpts from his interview, during which Obama explains the limits of his role, and why he should no longer be the figurehead for his party.

"Notably, groups that are more favorable toward Markey, including women and young voters, are also more undecided than their counterparts; women are ten points more undecided than men (33% to 23%), and 39% of voters under 50 are undecided compared to 21% of voters over 50," said Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, in a statement.

“We have to completely change the direction of leadership of the Democratic party. We need a Democratic party that knows how to fight to stop authoritarian rule,” said Chakrabarti.

"I'm running for Congress because Democratic Party leaders in D.C. are unfit to lead the world as it is today. People want something different."

"[As a staffer] you are supposed to be seen and not heard. If other members don't want to work with your chief of staff, that's a problem." - Drew Hammill

When I became a Democrat 10 months ago, I said the Democratic Party needs to be a big enough tent for Zoran Mamdani and Joe Walsh. But there is not a tent big enough for Joe Walsh and Graham Platner.

"The next two years will be full of debates about how to put the progress back in progressive," said Derek Kaufman, a philanthropist and former executive at J.P. Morgan Chase and Citadel who founded the nonprofit in 2023.