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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Democrats MUST Evolve To Stay Relevant

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

iHeartPodcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The Democratic party is still reeling from its loss to Trump in the election and they must find new members to lead the party. Steve Schmidt sits down with Congressmen Ro Khanna to discuss the individuals who can and will take charge of the Democratic party. Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribe Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewarningses.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveSchmidtSES/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewarningses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarningses/ X: https://x.com/SteveSchmidtSES

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0:00.0

You are one of the people that's going to be a really important future leader of the Democratic Party, right?

0:06.9

And so at some point, I mean, for people that are watching this, you're going to become a person who is much better known in the country.

0:16.1

It's much better known to them, more widely seen on television. I hope leader Jeffries, for example,

0:24.8

is more visible than he's been in laying out that alternative vision. Where do you think

0:31.6

things sit right now? How do you observe them? Donald Trump has won.

0:40.2

It's not a landslide, but it is a sweep.

0:45.5

It's a plurality victory, not a majority mandate,

0:51.9

but it is a significant repudiation of the Democratic Party's case on a decade basis that Trump is

1:07.9

an existential threat to all of these things that we Democrats stand in favor of

1:17.5

that are of the utmost importance. It was just rejected wholesale by the country, I think,

1:25.8

for a bunch of, for a bunch of different reasons.

1:28.4

When you observe this moment, process it, 34 days out from Donald Trump raising his hand,

1:37.5

taking the oath, the military aides with the nuclear football, sliding away away from Biden towards Donald Trump,

1:46.6

all the powers of state, back into Donald Trump's hand with a control of his party of the Senate,

1:56.8

narrowly in the House, the courts, and nominating some of the most unqualified people,

2:07.5

emotionally, temperamentally, character-wise that we've ever seen nominated for office.

2:21.3

Where are we?

2:24.3

And how did we get here?

2:27.3

That's a big question.

2:29.3

Steven, I'd be curious on your thoughts.

2:32.3

I'll tell you where I think people are at.

2:39.0

You know, there are a lot of places in America,

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