Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on how Democrats are reacting to election losses
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🗓️ 11 November 2024
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| 0:00.0 | For more analysis now of Democrats' losses in last week's election and the new Trump team that's taking shape, we're joined now by our political stakes duo. |
| 0:09.5 | I almost said politics Monday. |
| 0:11.2 | That's Amy Walter from the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith from NPR. |
| 0:16.1 | It's good to see you. |
| 0:16.9 | Good to be here. |
| 0:17.6 | So Democrats are working to regroup and figure out what went wrong in last week's election. |
| 0:21.9 | Here's some of what Democrats said yesterday on the Sunday shows. |
| 0:26.5 | Bottom line, if you're an average working person out there, do you really think that the Democratic Party is going to the match, taking on powerful special interest and fighting for you? |
| 0:36.2 | I think the overwhelming answer is no. |
| 0:38.3 | The reason we didn't win ultimately is we didn't listen enough to people on the ground. |
| 0:43.3 | People like Chris DeLuzio, Pat Ryan, who were saying, talk about the economy, talk about people's |
| 0:47.3 | economic struggles, have convinced people you have the better policies and better vision. |
| 0:52.3 | We've used condemnation of Donald Trump versus invitation to Donald Trump's supporters. |
| 0:58.0 | I've never known any industry, political or professional, in which a strategy of condemnation |
| 1:03.0 | works better than invitation. |
| 1:05.0 | So, Tam, how are Democrats coming to terms with this? |
| 1:07.0 | Because there are still Harris campaign aides who say they outlined policy after policy |
| 1:10.8 | that was targeted to working class voters, and they did make this outreach to Republicans, |
| 1:15.0 | and yet Donald Trump won all of the battleground states. |
| 1:18.5 | Right. I think that what you're seeing is there are a lot of Democrats pointing at a lot of different |
| 1:24.7 | things, and a lot of the things that they're pointing at confirm their priors. So if they're progressive, then they believe that trying to win over Liz Cheney voters |
| 1:32.5 | was a fool's errand, and that simply the Harris campaign was too moderate. And if they're moderate, |
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