Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) mentioned Democrats are in “the fight of our lives” following President-elect Trump’s victory within the 2024 election.
“We’re not gonna change our values,” Raskin mentioned on “All in with Chris Hayes” on Wednesday. “We’re not gonna abandon American constitutional democracy as a result of we misplaced an election by … 1 and a half p.c. We’re not gonna abandon the rule of legislation.”
“We’re gonna be recruiting and mobilizing hundreds of thousands and millions of more people to get out there and be leaders in this fight,” he added. “What else can we do? This is not a game of volleyball or badminton where we’re gonna, you know, quit the game or something. I mean, this is the fight of our lives that we’re in now.”
Trump’s win and impending return to the White Home has rattled Democrats, who additionally misplaced management of the Senate and can stay within the minority within the Home within the subsequent Congress.
There have been ongoing conversations within the Democratic Get together about its candidates’ performances on the polls this yr, with some centrists saying the occasion went too left, and liberals saying it didn’t go left sufficient.
“Look, we lost an election by around 3 million votes,” Raskin mentioned Wednesday. “Joe Biden had beaten Donald Trump four years before that by more than 7 million votes. So, obviously the country is closely divided, and so we’re going to alter some tactics and strategies and figure out how the right has captured a lot of the social media, and I think we have been outflanked there.”
Current polling by The Economist/YouGov discovered People’ opinion of the Republican Get together on the rise.
Within the late November ballot, 45 p.c of People mentioned they really feel “favorable” towards the Republican Get together, up 6 factors from an Economist/YouGov ballot in late October.
