Anonymous wrote:His Party Reeling, a Democratic Senator Tries a Message of Hope in Iowa
Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona won his seat last year by outperforming national Democrats among Hispanic voters and men. He wants the party to listen to his message as it regroups.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/politics/senator-gallego-democrats-iowa.html
Since outperforming his party in Arizona and winning a heavily contested Senate seat last year, Ruben Gallego has pushed national Democrats worried about their electoral futures to absorb his advice: Reach beyond the voters you’re comfortable with and make inroads with the ones you’ve left behind.
With Congress in its August recess and his calendar open, he has followed his own guidance, taking his message to Iowa, where members of his party have lost considerable ground.
A Marine veteran who spent 10 years in the House before winning his Senate race, Mr. Gallego, a 45-year-old Democrat, outperformed his party’s presidential ticket in Arizona last year among key groups that it struggled with, particularly Hispanic voters and men.
To hear Mr. Gallego tell it, his trip was meant to spread the lessons of his victory with Iowa Democrats, who have watched their state shift from political battleground to Republican stronghold but are hoping to pick up seats in next year’s midterm elections.
Then he stood in front of a favorable crowd of about 200 Democrats receptive to his attacks against the Trump administration and the bill to cut taxes and spending that Republicans passed this year.
Anonymous wrote:Radical AOC is threatening us with a GOOD TIME
Anonymous wrote:It should be Kamala Harris. Came close to beating Trump, and deserves a fair chance where she is calling the shots.
Anonymous wrote:I like Rahm. He is super confident, and as sharp and mean as any R, and I think that is what's needed. Beshear is too soft. Pritzker isn't attractive enough. Everybody hates Pete.
Anonymous wrote:His Party Reeling, a Democratic Senator Tries a Message of Hope in Iowa
Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona won his seat last year by outperforming national Democrats among Hispanic voters and men. He wants the party to listen to his message as it regroups.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/politics/senator-gallego-democrats-iowa.html
Since outperforming his party in Arizona and winning a heavily contested Senate seat last year, Ruben Gallego has pushed national Democrats worried about their electoral futures to absorb his advice: Reach beyond the voters you’re comfortable with and make inroads with the ones you’ve left behind.
With Congress in its August recess and his calendar open, he has followed his own guidance, taking his message to Iowa, where members of his party have lost considerable ground.
A Marine veteran who spent 10 years in the House before winning his Senate race, Mr. Gallego, a 45-year-old Democrat, outperformed his party’s presidential ticket in Arizona last year among key groups that it struggled with, particularly Hispanic voters and men.
To hear Mr. Gallego tell it, his trip was meant to spread the lessons of his victory with Iowa Democrats, who have watched their state shift from political battleground to Republican stronghold but are hoping to pick up seats in next year’s midterm elections.
Then he stood in front of a favorable crowd of about 200 Democrats receptive to his attacks against the Trump administration and the bill to cut taxes and spending that Republicans passed this year.
Anonymous wrote:It should be Kamala Harris. Came close to beating Trump, and deserves a fair chance where she is calling the shots.
She called The Atlantic which was doing a profile of her, mad that they didn't ask her before calling other people in Congress to get their opinion of her. She said she was canceling the profile.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Butigieg
Shapiro
Nuisance
Sharpton
AOC
Dems have a lot of people who are really good talkers - Buttigeig, Pritzker, Shapiro, Crockett - they are good at framing issues for the everyday American. One way or another we need to get a tiger team of folks like that to help reshape messaging for the Dems as a whole.
Crockett? You've got to be kidding me.
You might not like the way she communicates, but other people do, and she’s a rocket surgeon compared to anyone in the current administration.
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"Rocket surgeon" ....the jokes just write themselves, folks.
She's an educated, intelligent, witty, and badass woman who doesn't take sh--. Her role now isn't her first foray into politics. So mock her if you want but you'll be sorry.
BTW, you're so comfortable hurling insults at her, what's your background?
I would love to see Jasmine Crockett run for president! Please, DNC, anoint her as your next candidate. Give the people what they want!
Jasmine’s staff is speaking out. She’s treats them like trash. She burns through her workers faster than Kamala. Her constituents are not happy with her either.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Butigieg
Shapiro
Nuisance
Sharpton
AOC
Dems have a lot of people who are really good talkers - Buttigeig, Pritzker, Shapiro, Crockett - they are good at framing issues for the everyday American. One way or another we need to get a tiger team of folks like that to help reshape messaging for the Dems as a whole.
Crockett? You've got to be kidding me.
You might not like the way she communicates, but other people do, and she’s a rocket surgeon compared to anyone in the current administration.
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"Rocket surgeon" ....the jokes just write themselves, folks.
She's an educated, intelligent, witty, and badass woman who doesn't take sh--. Her role now isn't her first foray into politics. So mock her if you want but you'll be sorry.
BTW, you're so comfortable hurling insults at her, what's your background?
I would love to see Jasmine Crockett run for president! Please, DNC, anoint her as your next candidate. Give the people what they want!
Anonymous wrote:Newsom is NOT popular in CA among Democrats. If we want to take back the White House stop floating his name.
He has too many serious negatives:
1. He had an affair with his deputy chief of staff/friend/campaign manager’s wife. At the time Newsom was married to Kimberly Guifoyle (the same person who was Trump Jr.’s ex-fiancé , on Fox News, and now ambassador to Greece).
2. He is the king of “Rules for Thee But Not for Me”. Most CA were fine at first with the lock downs but then pictures surfaced of Newsom eating in a fancy restaurant with lobbyists for a birthday party maskless in Napa while telling everyone else to avoid gatherings and closing restaurants.
3. While he was busy with lobbyists, the state Employment Development Department had been mistakenly paying out unemployment benefits to convicted murderers, and other state prisoners and local jail inmates.By Monday, state investigators had identified $400 million paid on roughly 21,000 unemployment benefit claims improperly filed in the names of California prisoners.
This is just the start. There are so many others that other Californians can detail- nepo baby, fudges the truth then gets caught, super ultra progressive policies when mayor of SF and gov but now flip flopped back since he wants to run for President.
And most importantly CA is a solidly blue state, there is no point in having a politician from CA run for President. We need somebody from a swing state.