Democratic leaders struggle to define the party, way forward with after Harris loss: 'No coherent message'

As the Democratic Party continues to grapple with erstwhile Vice president Kamala Harris' loss to President Trump, immoderate leaders successful the enactment deliberation they should absorption connected their economical messaging and creating a coherent connection to respond to the president.

"We person nary coherent message," Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, told The New York Times connected Sunday. "This feline is psychotic, and there’s truthful much, but everything that underlines it is achromatic supremacy and hate. There needs to beryllium a connection that is wide connected astatine slightest the underlying happening that comes with each of this."

The DNC elected Minnesota party person Ken Martin connected Saturday, who said during his triumph code they needed to "to rebuild our coalition."

"The policies that we enactment and the connection that we person is not wrong," Martin told the NYT. "It is simply a messaging occupation and a marque problem. Those voters are not connecting our policies with their lives."

As the Democratic Party continues to grapple with erstwhile Vice president Kamala Harris' nonaccomplishment to President Trump, immoderate leaders successful the enactment deliberation they should absorption connected their economical messaging and creating a coherent connection to respond to the president. (AP Photo/Getty Images)

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., said the messaging should absorption connected the economy.

"There are radical successful the mediate — and spot me, there’s a batch of them — that wanted costs to spell down," Klobuchar said. "Instead, what they spot is chaos going up, corruption going up with the firing of the inspector generals, and conjecture what other is going up? Egg prices."

Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., said Democrats needed to absorption their connection connected lowering costs.

"Within the party, we request to marque definite we person a precise wide absorption to go," helium said. "We request to person our ain ideas. We’ll ne'er triumph again if we are conscionable playing defense."

The New York Times reported that erstwhile President Obama compared this to erstwhile the Democratic Party had mislaid Congress and the presidency successful 2005.

Minnesota Democratic Party seat Ken Martin speaks with Fox News connected Dec. 12, 2024 successful Washington D.C. Martin was elected DNC seat connected Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025  (Fox News - Paul Steinhauser)

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Others suggested not honing successful connected everything the president said.

"We cannot get caught up successful each egregious happening helium says, each insult helium hurls, each state helium attacks and each enforcement order," Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, told the NYT. "There’s conscionable excessively much."

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries precocious pledged that Democrats would combat against Trump "in the streets."

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"Right now, we're going to support absorption connected the request to look retired for mundane New Yorkers and mundane Americans who are nether battle by an utmost MAGA Republican docket that is trying to chopped taxes for billionaires, donors, and affluent corporations and past instrumentality New Yorkers and moving people Americans crossed the state with the bill," Jeffries said.

"That's not acceptable. We are going to combat it legislatively. We are going to combat it successful the courts. We're going to combat it successful the streets."