Veteran political adviser Philippe Reines joined others in criticizing the trendy Democratic Social gathering after latest election losses, saying it has been taken “hostage” by the far left.
“The majority of Democrats don’t agree with the things we are being tagged with,” Reines, a longtime aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, stated throughout a Friday morning look on CNN. “I think Democrats believe in common sense stuff more than you realize.”
He pointed to open border insurance policies and permitting transgender athletes who had been born male to compete in girls’s sports activities as examples of points that “most” Democrats disagree with — together with two Home Democrats that spoke out towards the latter since Election Day. Reines added that the social gathering simply hasn’t been speaking its place on “common sense” insurance policies successfully.
“You can have a healthy conversation within a party, and you have to have room within a party for all this, but at the end of the day, if you have some of these issues that are 80/20 across the country, you really gotta figure out why they’re being so tagged with one,” he stated.
President-elect Trump was declared the winner of the 2024 presidential election early Wednesday. The GOP additionally flipped the Senate. The competition marked the primary time in 20 years {that a} Republican presidential nominee received the favored vote, spurring bigger conversations about Democrats’ technique.
Reines performed a task in Vice President Harris’s marketing campaign towards Trump, together with standing in because the GOP nominee throughout her debate preparation. The Columbia College alum and political advisor performed the same function for Clinton in 2016 and continues to be a loyal confidante of the previous New York senator.
“How do we go forward from here? First, it comes from us. Yes, we have to listen to everybody,” he advised CNN. “But Republicans don’t get to tell us … what everybody wants. This is still a 50/50 country.”
Reines’s remarks had been much like these made by Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) earlier this week, who stated the far left had an “outsized impact” in shaping public notion of the social gathering, which he argued harm them within the election.
Torres, who received his reelection bid, held progressives answerable for selling slogans he stated pushed key voting blocs away from Democratic candidates and Harris.
