“Over the last decade, the Democratic Party has had a working-class voter problem. It started out as a White working-class voter problem,” Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pa., said. “And it has, as I’ve long feared, spread. It is not just a White working-class issue. It has now spread to the Latino working class and African American working class.”
Beyond local and state politics, powerful donors have also signaled significant worries about the future of the party.
“Donors are incredibly frustrated,” Alexandra Acker-Lyons, an advisor to Silicon Valley fundraisers, said. “They think there’s no plan. There’s no leadership.”
Other political influencers within the Democratic Party echo that desire for more defined party leadership, especially as President Donald Trump and his administration move quickly to gut government programs and defeat spending.
“Democrats have signaled they’re taking the approach that it’s not broken, so there’s nothing to fix,” Joe Calvello, who previously worked for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, told Politico. He added, “In the midterms, we’ll probably get lucky with inflation and eggs. And we’ll maybe get our a– kicked in ’28.”
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