The Washington Examiner has identified 12 issues that we believe will have an impact on and shape the year 2025 and above. The coming Trump administration’s main plan objectives have been the elimination of illegal immigration and the use of taxes. Additionally, there might be a health revolution in the United States, and very important issues need to be addressed regarding whatever from social security reform to the defense to the shifting energy landscape. After the election of Donald Trump last year, Part 8 asks whether Democrats can get a collective voice against him.
After a disappointing election, some Democrats are convinced that the party may come up again, while others worry that little has been learned.
For Liberals such as planner Stefan Hankin, the group needs a “refresh”, a “rebrand”, and “new eyes out there”.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY ) is a” good start,” according to Hankin, but he advised Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who will lead the Senate’s minority when the new 119th Congress, step down and replace former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA ).
However, Hankin is asking whether the party learned from last year, when Biden was pressured into standing as the Democratic presidential nominee the summer before the election due to concerns about his age and mental acuity, because of Pelosi’s support for and support for Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA ) being the lead Democrat on the House Oversight Committee over Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Vice President Kamala Harris had to move the least plan in recent past, leaving that no room for a competitive key for his substitute.
” It’s not like Schumer has to keep the Senate, but we just need a fresh look, so it’s not really feeling like the same old, similar aged”, Hankin told the Washington Examiner.
To that end, more Liberals are announcing their election for the DNC’s management elections, which will be held on Feb. 1. Previous governor of Maryland MartinO’Malley, Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Chairman , Ken Martin, and Wisconsin Democratic Party , Chairman Ben Wikler, and writer Marianne Williamson are among the prospects. A few politicians have pushed older peers out of commission management positions at the same time. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), 62, ousted House Judiciary Committee ranking part Jerry Nadler (D-NY), 77. In a last-minute exit interview released last month, retiring Rep. Annie Kuster (D-NH), 65, has also urged members of Congress to evaluate their own ideas.
” I’m trying to set a better instance”, Kuster told the Boston Globe. ” I believe there are coworkers, some of whom are also very successful and productive, but others who only stay for the long haul.”
For Hankin, the planner, Democrats have to come to terms with how the party’s nomination “lost for the next day to a totally incompetent wannabe dictator”.
” Citizens agree with us on the problems, but clearly they don’t like us”, he said. ” We’re not giving them why, or the feeling, or that North Star, whatever the devil saying you want to put in there. There is no such thing as” this is what Democrats are.” I understand it’s a much tougher. It’s a party gathering. There are lots of different organizations, but we’ve got to figure out a way to operate that and get it done in a way that there is space and a comfort level for the more democratic, industrial, college-educated man, black citizens, Hispanic voters, younger voters, West citizens”.
Iowa Democratic official Charlie , Comfort, an at-large part of , the Oskaloosa , City Council , and vice president of its class table,  , agreed that Democrats have to “figure out” how to make the party “more pleasant” to rural America.
” I am watching and living in an area where Democrats once had a lot of representation at the local level, but good local politicians are now losing simply because they have the’ Democrat ‘ label,” Comfort told the Washington Examiner. ” The party must cease trying to turn out just the urban and suburban voters, and really understand why rural America eluded the Democrats like rabbits from a sinking ship.”
Another Democratic strategist, Californian Garry South, predicted the group would become more reliant on its administrators, many of whom are positioning themselves for a now-open 2028 presidential primary.
According to South,” My own impression of it is that Democrats actually need rulers to step up and lead in this age of Trump recovered,” South told the Washington Examiner. ” After all, every government is a little leader of their own position, with administrative and governing authority, and we Democrats have some interesting and dynamic administrators, including Gavin Newsom below in California”.
Govs. are other governors that Democrats frequently praise. Andy Beshear (D-KY), Roy Cooper , (D-NC), Wes Moore (D-MD), J. B. Pritzker (D-IL), Josh Shapiro (D-PA ), and Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI ).
South added,” Senators are important, too, but unless they’ve also been a governor, they have no experience in running anything— except on and on in long-winded floor speeches”.
A Senate Democratic aide, who was provided anonymity to speak candidly, defended the Democrats ‘ new leadership team in the chamber, including Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) as chairwoman of the conference’s steering and policy committee, its No. 3 position, and Cory Booker (D-NJ) as , chairman of the strategic communications committee, the No. 4 spot. When Republicans regain control, Schumer and Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL ) will continue in their positions but in the minority.
Additionally, the source told the Washington Examiner,” There are a number of new ranking Democratic members who will be working on new messages in their committees ‘ jurisdictions.” During last month’s federal government funding negotiations, Leader Jeffries did a good job of finding and being defined in relation to the opposing party.” But perhaps most importantly, a congressional party tends to find its voice and be defined in relation to the opposite party.
In the coming year, Jeffries, House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA ), and House Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar (D-CA ), will all assume their previous positions. Democrats in the previous Congress voted against House Speaker Mike Johnson‘s (R-LA ) attempts to meet Trump’s demands that the debt ceiling be addressed in legislation to allow the federal government to continue operating after its Dec. 20 funding deadline. Trump’s request at the last minute prevented the passage of a previously negotiated bipartisan deal, with Biden eventually signing a compromise agreement.
Democrats are hoping to use that dynamic between Trump and Republicans on Capitol Hill to their advantage in 2025, especially if they can show that” they are serious about governing,” according to Democratic strategist Christopher Hahn.
According to Hahn,” I’m less concerned with the extremes the media loves to cover up than I am with the 25 or so swing House seats,” and how those candidates can win back the support of working-class voters who have been consistently resigning from the party. Some of those voters are already beginning to show some buyer’s remorse, and I would be surprised if they permit a GOP trifecta to continue past the midterms.
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Hankin agreed that Democrats ‘ best course of action may be putting together very little given that the party has “very little ability to do much” aside from allowing Republicans to “make all the mistakes and build the circular firing squad.”
Elon Musk, a billionaire tech entrepreneur and co-chairman of the Department of Government Efficiency, is calling the shots, saying that Trump is only trying to slash his and his family’s finances for the next four years. ” It has nothing to do with helping people, has nothing to do with helping the country, and just paint everything in that picture”.
