Obama said that. So did Kamala Harris.
Name two Democrats running for high office that said that.
Cite?
This is not true.
In fact most of the “facts” in your post here are dubious.
Sure it is framing, but your candidate is at 38% popularity and the opponent is at 40% percent favorability or whatever it was, I would think the question would be how can we get to like even 45% and win or get to 50% and win comfortably. Rather the discourse seems largely that the guy that 60% of the country doesn’t like is unbeatable which seems silly to me. And while some voters get there news largely from right wing sources, many voters do not or do not pay much attention to news at all. And a lot of voters who have never watched fox news in their life or posted a pro-trump meme really do not like the Democratic party. I’m not even sure majority of Democrats like the Democratic leadership at this point. You can’t control the right wing media but you can absolutely do a better job of listening to and responding to the concerns of voters. A charismatic candidate would help, and there are options, but I don’t think a good candidate undoes the problems of the party.
Historically, the GOP only wins about 30-35% of hispanic voters. They did better in 2024 than they usually do and the GOP won 42% of the hispanic vote, but hispanic support for Trump has cratered since the 2024 election due to his economic policies and ICE raids on law abiding immigrants.
The poll delivers a stark warning for the White House. Sixty-seven percent (67%) of Latino voters disapprove of President Trump’s job performance — with majority disapproval holding in every geographic area surveyed, including Florida at 51%.
One-in-four Latino voters who voted for President Trump in 2024 say that if they could do it over again, they would not vote for him. That figure has grown steadily from 9% in April 2025 to 13% in November 2025 to 25% today — a cautionary note for his party’s candidates heading into November.
Only 15% of Latino voters say they live comfortably. The other 83% are locked in a continuous daily struggle to stay financially afloat — stretched by the cost of food, gas, housing, healthcare and basic necessities that keep climbing while wages stay flat and Washington stays distracted or takes actions that make matters worse.
When asked for their top priorities on what elected officials must address, four of their top five priorities are dominated by pocketbook concerns:
I feel like you guys are putting your anti-DEI agenda onto this. I get the impression Trump won because he did better among youth/Gen Z and hispanics than the GOP normally does, combined with millions of people on the left in safe blue states sitting out the election due to Gaza. These 3 factors shifted the electorate by millions of votes to the right. I don’t think this election outcome was about being mean to white people per se. The people who are worried about that never would’ve voted democratic anyway.
But I think hispanics and Gen Z voted Trump more than they normally would vote GOP due to economic reasons, and now that Trump is making their lives worse economically they are turning on him.
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- 57% of all voters disapprove of Donald Trump’s job performance as president, including 68% of voters aged 18-22 and 72% of voters aged 23-29. Compared to the fall 2025 poll, Trump has lost the most ground with women under 35 and men under 30.
- Among voters overall, Democrats lead the generic ballot by 2 points. Voters 18-22 are D+23, and voters 23-29 are D+30. Compared to the fall poll, Democrats have gained the most ground with women ages 18-45 and men ages 23-34.
- When deciding their vote, the most important issue for young voters is the cost of living/affordability, followed by corruption, democracy, healthcare, and housing.
The issue is the GOP wants to make America an even more brutal plutocracy, while democrats want to offer false promises of economic improvements that they know they will never pass into law after they get elected. The democrats keep making false promises they know they’ll never fulfill to win election cycles, and aren’t taking into consideration how that affects their long term prospects.
However the fact that people respond to that by electing republicans who cut taxes for the rich and raise the cost of living isn’t helping either.
Trump made more false promises than anyone I can remember. Cutting utility bills by 50% within 6 months, ending the Ukraine war on Day 1, etc., etc. Didn’t seem to hurt his prospects much.
Only if they can stop the infighting. The Right has always been better at banding together despite their individual differences in order to present a united front against the “true enemy”.
I too take exception to @Wesley_Clark 's misguided characterization.
Dems make all sorts of campaign platforms they’ll enact if given a majority. Which they fail to enact because the voters fail to give them a majority. Or give them a majority but a veto-wielding R governor or president.
The evidence is real clear that states that have had D governments for decades are governed and lawed very differently from perrenially red states.
Don’t ask me how this works, because I don’t know, but for whatever reason the rules don’t apply to republicans. If democrats break promises it seems to hurt them. or if they sexually abuse people they lose their jobs. If democrats don’t make the economic condition better they lose votes.
Republicans don’t lose any votes or support for the same behavior. I have no idea how that works, but those are the current rules from what I can tell. I think people like the lawlessness of the modern GOP. The ability to treat women like garbage, commit fraud, lie constantly, etc and never face consequences while democratic voters care about integrity. No idea.
My counterpoint to that is when Obama won in 2008 with supermajorities in the senate and house. They could’ve passed various things via budget reconciliation but didn’t.
Also there are multiple states in the US with democratic supermajorities and a democratic governor. None have universal health care. None have a meaningful resurgence of labor unions* to protect gig workers and low wage workers. None are making progress on the out of control cost of living. Many brutal police forces work for blue cities in blue states.
They do have benefits like higher minimum wages, better environmental laws, more expanded versions of the ACA, more protections for women, etc.
I do feel the democrats are starting to learn they have to deliver things to win elections. Biden accomplished a lot with a much smaller majority than Obama had.
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*Having said that, deep red southern states have labor union participation rates of 2-5%, while deep blue states have labor union participation rates of 15-20%.
That was a very short window, November 2008 elections, Democrats won 56 seats (counting Indys), then Specter changed to Dem in April, along with a couple other changes- giving technically 60 seats- but Kennedy (the other one) was out sick a lot- then he died, which allowed Republican Scott Brown to win his seat in a special election. So, in reality, there was never a supermajority for voting in the Senate long enough to do anything.
Most experts agree- having UHC is just a state or two wont work- it has to be the whole USA.
California protected gig workers with several new laws- Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5), Proposition 22, and SB 988.
That’s how UHC started in some other developed nation. A regional province or state adopted UHC and it eventually went nationwide. That’s how we got the ACA, the state of Massachusetts created something like the ACA and it became the model for the national ACA system.
I wouldn’t be surprised if a state like Colorado becomes the first to pass true UHC. It doesn’t even have to be single payer, just UHC that eliminates uninsurance and underinsurance, and that passes regulations to make the system much more humane and more affordable.
Good, I’m glad I’m wrong.
Blue states are vastly better than red states. I don’t deny it. I guess to me I don’t see a lot of movement on health care reform, affordability, housing affordability, rebuilding the labor movement, etc on the state level.
Regarding the US in 2009 and 2010, the issue is the democrats could’ve passed more via budget reconciliation. I think you can pass up to 3 reconciliation bills a year, so they could’ve done up to 6 reconciliation bills (although they usually only pass 1 per year by combining spending, taxes and the debt limit). Obama passed 1 reconciliation bill in 2010, the ACA. Which is good, but he could’ve done more.
Biden to his credit passed 2 bills via reconciliation. The inflation reduction act and the rescue plan act. So it seems like democrats are becoming more willing to use the power the voters give them vs 20 years ago.
Yes, but they didnt have our President.
Issues being- The Feds must allow the state to redirect the massive federal funds from programs like Medicare and Medicaid into a unified state pool. trump aint gonna do that, if fact he just took a billion away-
Sorta, but of course- it’s complicated-
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48444