Democrats need to change their approach to Trump's second term, top Kamala Harris pollster says

[LauraInLA]

A pollster to Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign told top Democratic Party officials on Friday that they must confront President-elect Donald Trump far differently than they did during his first term, urgently pressing them not to focus on every outrage but instead argue that he is hurting voters’ pocketbooks.

The speech by Molly Murphy, which was delivered during one of the Democratic National Committee’s first post-election meetings of its leadership, amounted to a quiet indictment of much of the party’s long-standing approach to Trump. It also marked one of the most candid conversations that top party officials have aired publicly since Trump won.

“The 2025 playbook cannot be the 2017 playbook,” she said.
Speaking at a Hyatt Regency hotel in Washington D.C. to the DNC’s executive committee, she said that most Americans support Trump’s transition and that voters “don’t care about who he’s putting in Cabinet positions.”


https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/13/democrats-2024-election-retrospective-trump-00194273

[Think. Again.]

1. Resist, rebel, refute, on every issue and from every angle.

[thebigidea]

2. ok, so why wasn't THAT the 2024 playbook?

all of his announced policies would've hurt that pocketbook too.

[Hotler]

3. Take the repug playbook and use it against them. Give them a dose of their own shit. nt

[Keepthesoulalive]

4. It won't work

This is not about the purse, this is about fear of others and you can’t out bigot them. We are going to have, to find ways communicate with those that will listen and get them to the polls. Our county has outreach and we get our message out. And we vote for democrats.