Harry Bosch
Contributor
You are a lot more optimistic than I! I'm excited about the 2022 election. However, far more republicans voted that dems. Dem turnout was down. Hispanics are turning republican. We didn't lose as bad as anticipated because so many republicans split their vote, not wanting to vote for Qrepublicans. We need to change this direction. Agree with you that we need improve with our economics vote. Also agree with you that stressing infrastructure and Chips is wise. Regarding Chips, we should focus on "reshoring", safe guarding our supply chain. If China were to invade Taiwan tomorrow, our economy would go in the toilet immediately. They make 85% of the worlds chips."The Democrats generational wheel has begun to turn, the Party’s emerging bench is very, very strong"
Noting the D leadership's graceful handover of power to a much younger leadership. The D leadership no longer looks like the Soviet Union's leadership in its last years. It's the R leadership that now has lots of strife.
But not mentioning the steadily growing "Squad".Biden Administration – Harris, Raimondo, Buttigieg, Becerra, Granholm…
Govs - Newsom, Whitmer, Shapiro, Wes Moore, Polis, Healey, Hobbs, Cooper…
More – Padilla, Cortez Masto, Kelly, Warnock, Ossoff, Harrison, Fetterman, the new House leadership crew, the House Members who’ve survived tough battles in 2020 and 2022…..
"Hispanic vote narrative needs a rewrite, Dems crushing it in the Southwest" and "Dems need to lean in hard to the youth vote" and "NeverTrumpers played an important role" - R's like Liz Cheney, Bill Kristol, Sarah Longwell, Michael Steele, Matthew Dowd, etc.
Good bit here. It may be hard for the D's to have a good economic message without displeasing their deeper-pocketed donors, however.Democrats need a party wide project to win the economic argument in 2024 - The Democratic Party is simply not going to do what it wants to do as a national Party if we are losing the economy by 10-15 points to Republicans. As we argue in our With Democrats Things Get Better presentation, and in a related thread, our trailing the Rs on economic issues remains perplexing when the story since 1989 has been strong growth/lower deficits/progress under Ds, recessions/spiraling deficits/decline under Rs. Using the implementation of the big 3 bill Biden bills as a backdrop - infrastructure, CHIPs, climate - we need to together make a commitment to pull ahead of the Rs on the economy by the summer of 2024.
We need to change our messaging and win back the Hispanic vote.