Day by day we hear about President Trump doing Optics FOR media attention.…
Tariff’s that have NOT come…
Mass Deportations that actually aren’t mass at all…
1,000 out of a possible 143 M ILLION possible undocumented…
Firing less than 30 Justice Dept employees out of 100,000+
Folks?
EVERY new President fires people….
Trump ain’t NO different…..
Democrats in Congress , led by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, have decided that they are going to follow old sage James Carville….
“It’s the Economy Stupid”…..
Despite Trump’s noise?
The America economy is NO better that it was a month ago with ole’ Joe Biden….
And THAT was what people say they ARE NOT happy with…
There IS going to be another US House Election in less than. 2 years….
Hmmmmmm?
Less than 48 hours after President Donald Trump was inaugurated, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries held a closed-door meeting with Democratic lawmakers to issue a warning and a clarion call.
The new administration was going to “flood the zone,” and Democrats couldn’t afford to chase every single outrage — or nothing was going to sink in for the American people, Jeffries told them, according to a person in the room who requested anonymity to discuss the private meeting.
Jeffries, D-N.Y., urged members to focus their message on the cost of living, along with border security and community safety.
“The House Republican Contract Against America is an extreme plan that will not lower costs for everyday Americans,” Jeffries told reporters the next day, referring to the GOP agenda and spending cuts it is weighing. “It will make our country more expensive.”
Burned by their failures to end the Trump era the first time, Democrats are crafting a new playbook for his second administration that departs from the noisy resistance of his first presidency. The new approach, according to more than a dozen party leaders, lawmakers and strategists, will be to zero in on pocketbook issues as they lay the groundwork for the 2026 midterm elections and beyond. And they plan to focus less on his cultural taunts and issues that don’t reach the kitchen table.
The strategy will test Democrats’ ability to break through in a cluttered and rapidly evolving information environment. It will also clash with the wishes of some progressive members and activist groups, who want to make a firm stand against Trump’s aggressive migrant deportations and his rollback of transgender rights. But postelection surveys indicate that apart from dissatisfaction with inflation, those two issues fueled Trump’s win as he cast Democrats as out of touch with ordinary voters…
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Many of those voters cited inflation as a reason for throwing their support to Trump. Dissatisfied with the cost of living under President Joe Biden and nostalgic for the pre-pandemic economy, they decided to give him another chance.
Democrats’ mission is to win back those voters by proving that Trump has no plan to improve their livelihoods and might only make things worse.
After Trump delivered his lengthy inaugural speech, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the former House speaker, issued a statement highlighting “what he didn’t mention” — “his promised tax cuts for the rich.”
Top Democrats are zeroing in on the massive party-line bill that Republicans are crafting to pass Trump’s agenda, describing it as a tax cut for his wealthy friends that could be paid for by cutting safety net programs that middle-class people rely on…
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And so one of the things that we’re going to make a conscious effort to do is: Whatever else is going on, our message is going to be: They are ripping you off.”
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Carville doubles down on this….
Carville told NewsNation’s “CUOMO” that Trump’s ability to deliver on campaign promises — and Democrats ability to capitalize on what people need, including higher wages and cheaper schooling — will greatly impact the 2026 midterm elections….
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