Posted on 01/01/2025 3:48:37 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Democrats are at risk of being rudderless at the start of the new year, with a fading President Joe Biden soon to leave the White House and the Democratic National Committee‘s elections not until February.
While some Democrats are confident the party will come together again after a disappointing election, others are concerned few lessons have been learned.
For Democrats such as strategist Stefan Hankin, the party needs a “refresh,” a “rebrand,” and “new faces out there.”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is a “good start,” according to Hankin, but he encouraged outgoing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who will be Senate minority leader when the new 119th Congress starts on Jan. 3, to do what former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) did and step down.
But Pelosi’s endorsement of and advocacy for Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) to be the lead Democrat on the House Oversight Committee over Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has Hankin asking whether the party learned “any lessons” from last year, one in which Biden was pressured into standing down as the Democratic presidential nominee the summer before the election because of his dismal debate performance against President-elect Donald Trump amid concerns about his age and mental acuity. That meant there was no time for a competitive primary for his replacement, and Vice President Kamala Harris had to run the shortest campaign in recent history.
“It’s not like Schumer has to leave the Senate, but we just need a new look, so it’s not just feeling like the same old, same old,” Hankin told the...
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AOC, you’re on in two minutes !
Schiff, Pelosi, Clymer, Waters, Schumer....
People call them two faced but no one could answer “If they have another face then why on earth go out in public with that ugly one?”
The problem is not the face, it is the message.
An endlessly recycled message....
A party that lets a racist communist grifter named Hakeem maneuver his way into their top leadership position is beyond redemption.
The party needs a “refresh,” a “rebrand,” and “new faces out there.”
Phony-baloney plastic-banana
I miss Rush.
The “young” faces of the democrat party make the fossils seem sane. They are outright proud marxist Islamist American haters and proud of,it.
President Trump needs to appoint a non-cabinet “czar” who will work quietly, behind the scenes, to discover and train the next generation of conservative party leaders.
Since after four years, J.D. Vance will be in pole position, but has VP duties, the czar will need to do a lot of election and post election work for him.
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