Swamp Notes: How can Democrats rebuild?
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 16 November 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The Democratic party is hardly monolithic. But if there’s one thing that’s kept it together over the past decade, it’s been a shared opposition to Donald Trump. Now that Trump is returning to the White House, how will the party try to win voters back? The FT’s deputy Washington bureau chief Lauren Fedor and US national editor and columnist Ed Luce join this week’s Swamp Notes podcast to discuss how the Democrats are thinking about the future.
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| 0:33.3 | Democrats are picking up the pieces after suffering a brutal defeat last week. |
| 0:39.3 | Not only did Donald Trump win every single swing state, but almost every county in the country |
| 0:45.1 | and key demographic groups shifted to the right. |
| 0:53.3 | This is Swamp Notes, the weekly podcast from the FT News Briefing, where we talk about all of the things happening in U.S. politics. |
| 1:00.7 | I'm Sonia Hudson. And this week we're asking, what's the Democratic Party's strategy to win back voters? |
| 1:07.9 | Here with me to discuss is Lauren Fidor. She's the FTs Deputy Washington Bureau Chief. |
| 1:12.5 | Hi, Lauren. Hi, Sonia. And we've also got Ed Luce, the FTs U.S. national editor and columnist. |
| 1:18.2 | He also co-writes our Swamp Notes newsletter. Hi, Ed. Hi, Sonia. How are you? Doing well, thanks. |
| 1:24.0 | So I don't want to spend too much time focusing on where the Democrats went wrong in the |
| 1:28.5 | 2024 election. You know, it's still an ongoing discussion in the party and there's a lot of |
| 1:33.1 | blame to apparently to go around. But Lauren, can you sum up the main points in the debate that's |
| 1:39.2 | going on? Sure. I would argue the Democrats have limitless time to have this debate and they they should if they want to win elections anytime soon. But a couple of points. One is there is a camp that is blaming President Biden. They say he didn't get out of the race soon enough. He never should have run in the first place. He should have allowed for a primary process to take place. There is a camp that |
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