Governor’s Whitmer, Shapiro, Newsom and Beshear seen to be ‘warming up’ for tilt at reanimating devastated organisation
Supporters of US vice president Kamala Harris react as the Democratic Party candidate delivers a concession speech on Wednesday after Donald Trump won the US presidential election. Photograph: Erin Schaff/The New York TimesThe corpse of the Democratic Party’s 2024 election campaign has been loaded on to the mortuary slab and the postmortems are under way.
Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, takes the stage during a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden in New York, October 27th, 2024. In his final days on the campaign trail, Trump has portrayed himself as the repairman for a country awash in inflation, crime and immigration - even though all three are down.
It all came to a head in an unlikely setting, during an appearance on an episode of ABC’s The View, a daytime talkshow. “I think it would have been smart to acknowledge things that could have been done differently,” says former Democratic Party congressman for Pennsylvania Conor Lamb, “and the things she would do differently going forward, because it was obvious that voters wanted a change from what they were getting. Whether you love Joe Biden or hate him, they were ready to move on.”Lamb says “humility is an important virtue right now” as the party seeks to resurrect its fortunes.
“When I started campaigning, I didn’t go around claiming I had all the answers and I was going to impose my views on the constituents. In small groups, and in formal settings, I just kind of asked people what they thought.” Smyth says the Democratic Party “needs to stop dividing voters into white, black or Latino groups” and “to see them as middle- and low-income people who have no savings and pay huge interest on car loans”.
“We’re supposed to stand in the shoes of our constituents and make them feel as if their own voice is heard and their own needs are being met and we’re obviously not doing that in a large part of the country.”Lamb believes it is too early to speculate as to who might be best equipped to try to take back all that has been lost.
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