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Three-quarters of voters think the country is on the wrong track, two-thirds are unhappy with the economy. In the exit polling, 45 percent of voters said that their families' financial situation was worse than it was four years ago,
My primary concern is how we are able to take back the mantle of being the party for the working class. Because I'm worried that we've lost it."
People were offended not just by the war in Gaza, but concerned about the amount of money the U.S. is spending on weapons for Ukraine, and we need to either think about a new way to talk about why that's important and why we're doing it or refocus our foreign policy priorities."
Trump was able to take the mantle of the anti-establishment candidate at a time when voters were really, really mad,
This was an economic problem, and people blamed the top of the ticket for bad economic conditions,
If we are always in the position of defending Democratic institutions that most of the people in the country do not think are working for them, then we're gonna be the defenders of a broken system,
A majority of the country that includes all ages, races, genders, religions and political beliefs, chose four more years of Donald Trump. Either because they like him, because they like his agenda or they don't see him and his agenda as enough of a risk. Or they voted for him based on bad or incomplete information,
You heard a lot of people say Donald Trump is going to be the guy who keeps us out of World War III, ... That is the opposite of the conversation in 2016.
The idea for a while that Latinos only care about immigration, Black voters only care about criminal justice reform or women only care about reproductive freedom, it's patronizing and it's just wrong. We've got to have a message that reaches everyone, that everyone can see themselves in,
It was a mistake for Joe Biden to run for re-election,
Our party is now the party of an educated, cosmopolitan minority,
Most people, at least according to the exit poll and almost every other poll we've seen in the last couple of years, are saying, 'I've faced financial hardship because of inflation,
The incumbent president has an approval rating of about 40, or 41 percent."
Dan Pfieffer stated earlier in the episode that The White House took the wrong lessons from the midterms in 2022. They didn't listen to obvious voter concerns about Joe Biden's age and anger at the economy."
What she was being asked to do was virtually impossible,
We have to get back to being the anti-war party again,
We as a party need to stop treating them that way. This party cannot be the sum of its identities and interest groups, there has to be a bigger message about improving people's lives,
[I]t was necessary for the Democratic nominee to separate him or herself from an unpopular incumbent, as much as we love Joe Biden,
You could not have run a better campaign in that short period of time,
That was the opener for her to show Americans that she's going to get tough on the border, that she's going to take drastic measures to bring down inflation. That was her chance."
