Democrats think they have a message problem

 The Hill:

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Democrats’ message problems are much discussed… for good reason. They killed not one, but two Democratic 2024 presidential campaigns.

First, refusing to admit their message problems, Democrats turned on the messenger — and that turned out to be former President Joe Biden. But installing in Kamala Harris in his place didn’t change their messaging problems; instead, it confirmed them.

Harris was Biden’s polar opposite in every way except one — message. But that single continuity yielded the same comprehensive failure Biden had been facing.

Because November made it inescapable, there’s been an unrelenting focus on the Democrats’ message. Coming from opposite perspectives, James Carville and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) have made the same point: Democrats’ message needs fixing. Countless others have added their voices.

Lost in this microscopic focus on message is the fact that Democrats also have no messengers. Biden, Harris and Walz were all swept from the national stage by Trump’s tsunami. Bernie Sanders is too old.

Nancy Pelosi is both too old and now discredited by Trump’s return. Pelosi started the concerted operations against Trump back in 2019 with House hearings, investigations, and impeachments. She was the mastermind behind Biden’s removal and Harris’s insertion. Her tearing-up of Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address ironically presaged her own fate.
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Their message is not their problem.  It is that their policies were failures.  They went on a spending spree that increased inflation by the highest amounts in decades making it harder for most Americans to afford food and automobiles.  If they do not change their policies they will continue to be doomed to defeat until Republican policies fail. 

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