Where do the Democrats go from here?
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The Democrats may be on the retreat politically but they're hoping to bounce back after an actual retreat this week in Leesburg, Virginia.
One of the speakers at the retreat political strategist (and friend of the podcast) James Carville, who's suggested Democrats should "play dead" and do nothing against Trump.
The Americast team unpack whether this approach could work, and Justin's been chatting to Democrat Congressman Seth Moulton, who thinks the party has lost touch with the country.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello to all the new Americasters who've joined us in the last few months. More of us now |
| 0:04.3 | we're here than ever before, partly because there is so much going on. So between now and |
| 0:09.5 | Donald Trump's inauguration in January, we're going to be looking at who is picking for his team, |
| 0:14.1 | what that could mean for the next four years and how the Democrats begin to regroup. So if you've |
| 0:20.1 | got any questions or comments, do get in touch. |
| 0:22.3 | Ameriast at BBC.co.uk. |
| 0:24.5 | We'll be publishing episodes now on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. |
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| 0:39.5 | Here is today's. Enjoy. |
| 0:47.2 | BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts. So, Marianna, Anthony, we're all back from Thanksgiving. |
| 0:51.7 | You have a good time, Anthony? Absolutely. I ate a lot of turkey. I watched a lot of football. I had a nice relaxing weekend. Sounds like you did most of the traditional pursuits. |
| 0:56.1 | My traditions, at least. |
| 0:57.3 | Exactly. I was going to say you did most of the things that were not on the infamous Thanksgiving |
| 1:02.8 | AmeriCast list from our quiz. And we've had loads of people getting in touch wanting to know |
| 1:08.0 | one thing this week, which is what actually was on the list because |
| 1:11.8 | we never finished reading it. I would like to add the caveat that I did not come up with the list. |
| 1:18.6 | Yeah, actually, it was our production team that came up with this list, which was about as good |
| 1:22.7 | as one would imagine, a list compiled by people who don't live in the United States might |
| 1:27.1 | do for Thanksgiving activities. |
| 1:29.1 | You want to detail it for it, it's Mariana. |
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