Pollsters for Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign told Democratic leaders on Friday that they must confront President-elect Donald Trump in a much different manner than they did during his first term, focusing on all kinds of outrageous behavior. Instead of pointing fingers, he urgently urged them to claim that Trump is hurting them. Voter’s notebook.
Molly Murphy’s speech, delivered at one of the Democratic National Committee’s first post-election leadership meetings, was a quiet indictment of much of the party’s longstanding approach to Trump. . It was also one of the most candid conversations between party leaders publicly aired since Trump’s victory.
“A 2025 strategy cannot be a 2017 strategy,” she said.
Speaking at the DNC Executive Committee at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Washington, D.C., he said most Americans support Trump’s transition and that voters don’t think Trump “cares who he puts in his cabinet.” “I haven’t.”
He said Trump will be more popular than he was when he took office, but not as popular as when President Joe Biden or former President Barack Obama took office. He said Trump’s long-standing strength is that voters support his economic response, and Democrats should aim to change that in a second term.
“These voters are saying, ‘I’ll give him a pass for his outrageous behavior if it costs me less,'” she says.
He noted that key parts of the party’s base, including young people, Latinos and black voters, left the Democratic Party in this election. And while Murphy blamed high prices, he suggested that inflation was not the only culprit, arguing that working-class voters have been steadily moving away from Democrats over several election cycles.
She argued that Democrats have been focusing on the wrong issues. As for young voters and voters of color, he said, “the systems have failed them,” and “they may not accept Trump because they want to dismantle these institutions, but they certainly oppose him.” That’s not the case,” he said.
He similarly warned Democrats to be “careful” in attacking President Trump for violating norms, even though Democratic donors and primary voters care about these issues. , claimed he was not concerned about the voters the party lost in November.
“We shouldn’t ask them to clutch their pearls because the norms aren’t working for them,” she said. “There is a risk that the sound will end up sounding like a hall monitor.”
Murphy’s speech also emphasized that Democrats are betting that President Trump won’t keep his promise to cut costs early, which could lead to a Democratic return to power. He said Democrats need to reorient their message around Trump’s plans to cut taxes for the wealthy, impose widespread tariffs that would put more money on consumers, and offer “perks” to big corporations. Ta.
Mr. Murphy’s presentation is different from what many Democrats across the party, from strategists to elected officials, said when the “resistance” blossomed when Mr. Trump first took office. It’s the latest sign that he is planning a new approach to Trump.
