Democrats need to avoid resisting Trump at every step: Marie Harf

Published January 20, 2025 7:33pm ET



Political commentator and former Obama State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf suggested Democratic lawmakers should aim to work with President Donald Trump more frequently in his second presidency, rather than constantly resist him as they did in his first term.

Harf contended that Democrats are starting to realize “the cold, hard reality” that Trump was not an “aberration” after eight years of former President Barack Obama. As such, the party’s next steps should not be objecting to anything the president does and instead only resist the “credibly bad things” he will do in the Oval Office.

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