Some Democrats are calling for the party to move closer to the center after President-elect Trump won battleground states across the country and won the popular vote, according to a new report.
“The progressive wing of the party has to realize that this country is not progressive, it's not far left or far right. We all have to realize that,” Democratic National Committee member Joseph Paolino said. They are in the middle of the road.” junior told Politico. “We don't want it to become a spectacle,” another Democratic lawmaker told the same media outlet.
“We're going to talk to the center and find a chair to replace someone who drives a truck home at the end of the day,” Paolino said.
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A new report from Politico says some Democrats are calling for the party to move closer to the center.
A DNC lawmaker from Florida told Politico that Democrats are struggling with being labeled as radical by conservatives.
“We don't want to be the freak show they've branded us to be,” the DNC member said. “If you're a mother of three kids, you live in the middle of America, and you don't really care about politics, and you see an ad that makes you feel scared, you think, 'Me!' Whether he's a weirdo or not, I want his weirdness to not affect the kids.”
“This is basically a rebuilding effort from the bottom up,” said former DNC chair Donna Brazile.
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Two DNC network officials previously told Fox News that one of the leading candidates considering a run for DNC chairman is Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan. (AP Photo/Hoshiko Eugene, Pool, File)
Two sources close to the DNC network previously told Fox News that one of the leading candidates considering a run for DNC chairman is Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan and a longtime political operative. spoke. Emanuel has reportedly been secretly contacting DNC committee members as he considers candidates to replace current chairman Jamie Harrison, whose term expires early next year. Harrison is unlikely to seek a second four-year post after last week's very disappointing result election results For Democrats, the vote was split up and down.
“We've become so assertive about our identity that we've allowed the Republican Party to attack us in earnest at every turn, and we basically focus only on the everyday problems of Americans. I think there's an overall feeling that they just haven't done it,'' a DNC senator from California told Politico on condition of anonymity.
Cindy Bass, a member of the Pennsylvania state committee, emphasized that the future of the Democratic Party is away from far-left politics, saying, “I'm not interested in anyone who wants to move further away from the center.” “The center is where we need to be.”
FOX News' Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
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