Posted on 07/24/2017 7:47:47 AM PDT by Red Badger
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic leaders believe they lost to President Donald Trump partly because voters don't know what the party stands for. So they're trying to rebrand themselves with a new slogan and a populist new agenda as they look ahead to the 2018 midterms.
It's called "A Better Deal" and House and Senate Democratic leaders are rolling it out Monday afternoon in Berryville, Virginia. They're intentionally traveling outside the Beltway, and into the district of one of the GOP House members they hope to defeat next year, Barbara Comstock.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, along with other top House and Senate Democrats, are making the presentation after months of internal debate and analysis of polling and focus groups.
Democrats think of themselves as the party of working people and were surprised when Trump was able to steal working-class voters from them. They subsequently figured out that voters don't know what the party stands for, and the new effort is aimed at changing that.
Schumer acknowledged on Sunday that Democrats were partially to blame for the American people not knowing what the party stands for.
"When you lose an election with someone who has, say, 40 percent popularity, you look in the mirror and say what did we do wrong? And the number one thing that we did wrong is we didn't have -- we didn't tell people what we stood for," Schumer said on ABC's "This Week."
The full title of the agenda is "A Better Deal: Better Jobs, Better Wages, Better Future." (After an earlier and incomplete version leaked on Thursday, Twitter users mocked the similarity to the slogan for Papa John's pizza, "Better Ingredients, Better Pizza.")
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Back then it was unions. Now it’s race based thuggery. Same tactics, different groups, same playbook.................
There, fixed it.
What a STUPID new slogan!!!
What do they think is going on, it’s the deep depression and FDR is running against Herbert Hoover!?! Hey Rats, you stole your slogan from 1932 LMAO!
“Better deal”—ROFLOL!! Direct theft of FDR’s “New Deal” which included massive, massive new government spending and social programs.
“Better wages”—double ROFLOL! “Wages” are for hourly (mostly) unskilled labor. What about the rest of us, the educated/skilled professionals who receive salaries, NOT wages? I’m a salaried professional, I’m really excited about “better wages” from the Rat party—not!
The Rat party undoubtedly spent millions of dollars on idiot “branding” consultants, and this is the best they could come up with LMAO LMAO!
Commie fascists r us!
And republicans are still fighting Trump. The GOP is known as the stupid party for a reason I guess.
Democrats don't want people to know that they really stand for. Because if the people did know, Democrats would never win another national election outside of a few bubbles.
“A Better Deal: Better Jobs, Better Wages, Better Future.” HAHAH This is totally against their Nature. REmember Pres Obamas’ hone in like a Laser!
The party that puts illegal invaders before American citizens. The party for white genocide.
Good one - maybe we should make a list...
The Demons have made it perfectly clear that they DESPISE the poor and uneducated.
The Left have become a loose coalition of people who hate one another, bound together ONLY by their greater hatred of all that is good....they gather round the table fighting for scraps and will at a moments notice stab one another in the back to promote themselves.
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