Former Democratic Nationwide Committee Chair Donna Brazile on Sunday known as for a “great introspection” after President-elect Trump outperformed expectations in some Democratic strongholds within the 2024 election cycle.
“Trump improved not just his numbers in the battlegrounds, which we were talking about on election night, 3 to 4 points,” Brazile mentioned. “He also improved in inner cities. He improved in outer suburbs. So it looks like Trump ran the 50-state strategy that the Democrats used to talk about.”
Trump outperformed expectations for his third straight presidential election, regardless of preelection polls exhibiting a neck and neck race between him and Vice President Harris.
Trump pulled off a sweep of the principle battleground states and seems set to win the favored vote. He additionally made appreciable inroads in comfortably blue states, shedding a few of them by smaller margins than Republicans have beforehand.
Brazile, a longtime Democratic strategist, mentioned every part ought to be on the desk when discussing what went unsuitable for her social gathering, however she additionally mentioned she thinks Democrats have to do a greater job at reaching voters.
“So we can talk about messaging, we can talk about the map. We can also talk about just, was 107 days enough? All of this should be on the table. We’re going to have a lot of introspection,” Brazile mentioned.
“But more importantly, look at the Democratic Party. I was there eight years ago when Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton, and we looked at ourselves and said, ‘What the hell?’ We tried to stitch together the blue wall with Elmer’s glue. We needed duct tape and a lot more,” she mentioned.
“We got to do a better job of reaching the voters where they are, and not try to make pretend that this was won simply because Donald Trump is a better liar.”
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