How will Democrats move forward? Three strategists weigh in
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🗓️ 13 November 2024
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All Things Considered host Ari Shapiro talked with three democratic strategists who are looking ahead and asking: Where does the party go from here?
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| 0:00.0 | When Vice President Kamala Harris was campaigning for the presidency, she landed on a signature line. |
| 0:06.6 | This summer at the Democratic National Convention, it was everywhere. |
| 0:09.8 | In the pump-up video set to Beyonce, |
| 0:12.0 | and when we fight, we win. |
| 0:15.3 | Clastered across posters in the audience and in speech. |
| 0:19.1 | When we fight, we win. |
| 0:22.7 | After speech. |
| 0:24.2 | Because as we've all these known in Texas, |
| 0:26.7 | when we fight, we win. |
| 0:30.7 | After speech. |
| 0:32.2 | And as the next president of the United States always says, |
| 0:36.1 | when we fight, |
| 0:37.3 | we fight, when we fight, when we fight, when we fight, |
| 0:41.4 | we're going to. Thank you. God's bless. |
| 0:44.6 | In this election, the Democrats' fight was pretty good. They successfully ditched their |
| 0:49.7 | unpopular presumptive nominee. They raised a billion dollars with record-breaking speed. They reached |
| 0:55.8 | tens of millions of people with their massive door-knocking and phone banking operations. But the |
| 1:01.2 | win, of course, never came. And since then, we've seen another law of politics take shape. When you |
| 1:07.8 | don't win, you fight amongst yourselves. |
| 1:11.9 | The finger pointing began the morning after the election. Democratic Representative Richie Torres |
| 1:16.3 | from New York said that, quote, Donald Trump has no greater friend than the far left. |
| 1:21.8 | Look, if the goal is to win elections on Twitter, then you should embrace movements like |
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