Democrats consider rebrand after Trump win, want to avoid ‘freak show’ party label: report

Some Democrats are pushing the enactment to determination person to the center, according to a caller report, aft President-elect Trump won plaything states crossed the state and adjacent won the fashionable vote. 

"The progressive helping of the enactment has to admit — we each person to admit — the country’s not progressive, and not to the acold near oregon the acold right. They’re successful the middle," Democratic National Committee (DNC) committeeman Joseph Paolino Jr. told Politico. Another Democrat said to the outlet, "I don’t privation to beryllium the freak amusement party." 

"I’m going to look for a seat who’s going to beryllium talking to the halfway and who’s going to beryllium for the feline who drives a motortruck backmost location astatine the extremity of the day," Paolino said. 

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Some Democrats are pushing the enactment to determination person to the center, according to a caller study successful Politico.

A DNC subordinate from Florida told Politico that the Democratic Party is suffering from being portrayed arsenic radicals by the conservatives. 

"I don’t privation to beryllium the freak amusement party, similar they person branded us," the DNC subordinate said. "You know, erstwhile you’re a ma with 3 kids, and you unrecorded successful mediate America and you’re conscionable not truly into politics, and you spot these ads that scare the bejesus retired of you, you’re like, ‘I cognize Trump’s weird oregon whatever, but I would alternatively his weirdness that doesn’t impact my kids.’"

"This is fundamentally a rebuild occupation from the bottommost up," erstwhile DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile said. 

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Two sources successful the DNC web person antecedently told Fox News that 1 of the starring candidates considering a tally for the seat of the DNC is Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool, File)

Two sources successful the DNC web person antecedently told Fox News that 1 of the starring candidates considering a tally for the seat of the DNC is Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan and a longtime governmental operative. Emanuel has reportedly been softly reaching retired to DNC committee members arsenic helium contemplates a bid to win the existent chair, Jaime Harrison, whose word is up aboriginal adjacent year. Harrison is improbable to question a 2nd four-year posting successful the aftermath of past week’s precise disappointing election results for the Democrats, up and down the ballot.

"I bash deliberation there’s this full sentiment that we conscionable went excessively acold retired determination connected identity, and it allowed the Republicans to truly onslaught america astatine each crook arsenic a result, and that we conscionable fundamentally did not absorption connected conscionable the mundane issues of Americans," a DNC subordinate from California speaking connected information of anonymity told Politico. 

"I’m not funny successful anyone who is moving further distant from the center," a Pennsylvania committe member, Cindy Bass, emphasized that the aboriginal of the Democratic Party leans distant from far-left politics. "The halfway is wherever we person to be."

Fox News' Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report. 

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