Democrats weigh change in strategy to avoid midterm and 2028 defeats

Published November 7, 2024 6:00am ET



Democrats have started soul-searching on what went wrong after voters decisively sent Donald Trump back to the Oval Office and turned over control of the Senate to Republicans.

The infighting played out publicly and privately about missteps, from Harris’s failure to distance herself from past radical social positions to Democrats implying Trump’s supporters were trash or even fascists. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) contended that Democrats fundamentally misunderstood the economic frustrations of voters.

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