Should Democrats be More Like Trump…Or Biden?

Smash Mouth?

Or?

Quietly working to get the Job Done?

I’d say it depends on where the talking Democrat IS….

Somethings work in certain place….

Somethings do NOT….

The Democratic party for the next two years WILL be doing a juggling act ….

We HOPE that act does NOT go sideways….

And Remember?

RUNNING FOR Office is NOT the same as RUNNING an Office….

Two Different skills ….

 

For Democrats, the midterms have been a test of which ideological wing of the party has more juice: the progressive left, which notched high-profile wins during the primaries, or the moderate middle.

But, as the general election draws near, there’s also a stylistic gulf emerging, most notably in the purple and red states that have become major Senate battlegrounds. And it poses another big question for the party.

Should a candidate thrill an audience and light the world on fire? Or is being a little bit boring actually a secret weapon?

What works in November could shape the way the Democratic Party thinks about 2028. Tonight, we’ll dig into this divide…..

Team Electric

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, puts it this way: “Politics is the alchemy of turning attention into power.”

It’s not clear whether El-Sayed is going to win power. But he definitely has the attention part down.

He has leaned into his status as a political lightning rod, criticizing U.S. support for Israel and promising to be a thorn in the side of the powerful in Washington, whether they be Democrats or Republicans. And he has spread that message through viral social posts — he has a penchant for dancing on camera — and soaring speeches on the campaign trail….

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Team Normal

When was the last time you saw a viral clip from Roy Cooper?

He’s the Democrat running for Senate in North Carolina, a state that has been a perennial Democratic heartbreaker in cycles past. This year, though, Cooper has built such a solid polling lead over his Republican opponent, Michael Whatley, that most national Republican groups have essentially given up on the race.

Cooper is a former governor, and he has drawn on voters’ familiarity with him to distance himself from the national Democratic brand, my colleague Pati Mazzei recently wrote. He isn’t a terribly exciting candidate — but that’s kind of the point, state Senator Woodson Bradley told Pati.

“If you can talk to people like human beings, like Team Normal, that resonates,” Bradley said in an interview last month, adding, “I think 80 percent of people live in the Team Normal world.”

More @ NY Times….