{"id":124308,"date":"2024-11-10T18:08:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T11:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=124308"},"modified":"2024-11-10T18:08:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T11:08:44","slug":"still-stunned-democrats-begin-to-squint-toward-their-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=124308","title":{"rendered":"Still-stunned Democrats begin to squint toward their future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p>\n    <cite class=\"source__cite\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__location\" data-editable=\"location\"\/><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__text\" data-editable=\"source\">CNN<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an55d2001h2dqgbvrc541c@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Pick one word to describe Republicans and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/president-donald-trump-45\">Donald Trump<\/a>, the focus group moderator asked, and one word to describe Democrats and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/08\/politics\/glass-ceiling-women-kamala-harris\/index.html\">Kamala Harris<\/a>.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj00073b6mbncyjk3g@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cCrazy,\u201d said the White woman in her 40s, who hadn\u2019t gone to college. Then: \u201cPreachy.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj00083b6mjxo3mlvh@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The focus group organized by Harris supporters in western Pennsylvania, not long after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/10\/politics\/debate-takeaways-trump-harris\/index.html\">presidential debate in September<\/a>, was made up of a dozen people who voted for Trump in 2016 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> in<strong> <\/strong>2020 but who were undecided this time, except for being sure that they\u2019d vote.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj00093b6mjlzdzeun@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Asked to pick between the two words, the woman said she\u2019d \u201cprobably go with \u2018crazy,\u2019\u201d anguish clearly in her voice.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj000a3b6m2en3hgat@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cBecause \u2018crazy\u2019 doesn\u2019t look down on me,\u201d she said. \u201c\u2018Preachy\u2019 does.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj000b3b6mn23g3dcm@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In CNN\u2019s conversations with two dozen top Democratic operatives and elected officials since Election Day, the fear isn\u2019t just that no one knows the answer to what\u2019s next \u2013 it\u2019s that they don\u2019t even know what the question is at this point.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj000c3b6mad1m5sdl@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cWhy is it that Donald Trump did 8 points better than he did against Hillary Clinton in Illinois and yet down ballot, Democrats held every office and gained at the local level across the state,\u201d said Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who has already begun analyzing the results and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/09\/politics\/democratic-governors-attorneys-general-trump\/index.html\">planning for what\u2019s ahead<\/a>, with an eye on other down-ballot Democratic successes last week in Trump-won states like Michigan. \u201cDonald Trump is a uniquely more popular figure, but what is it about him that makes him that way? We can all guess, but why don\u2019t we actually look and find out?\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj000d3b6mwkgf5fip@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Democrats\u2019 shell shock is real, and not just because top Harris aides were telling Biden senior staff and former President Barack Obama aides past 9 p.m. on Tuesday that she was about to win. It goes to the core of their conception of their party.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj000e3b6mj085sfjw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            A few months after Obama won reelection in 2012, his aides started a group called Battleground Texas, emblematic of their faith in massive demographic shifts, particularly among Latinos, that they figured would define a Democratic era, turn the Lone Star State blue by 2028 and lock Republicans out of the Electoral College.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj000f3b6mwlh5ghy7@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Instead, Latino voters, Black men and other marginalized groups <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2024\/politics\/2020-2016-exit-polls-2024-dg\/\">shifted toward Trump nationally this year<\/a>, ushering Democrats into an unprecedented moment for a modern political party \u2013 grappling with gutting losses for president and other offices; being potentially locked out of power in Washington with no clear leaders; and an incoming president who campaigned on radically remaking America and punishing the \u201cenemy within.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj000g3b6miohna5jn@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            And Texas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/election\/2024\/results\/texas\">went redder<\/a> than it has since Obama\u2019s reelection.\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cm3apyrhs002h3b6mgnu4q5b2@published\" class=\"image image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"2023-03-26T013903Z_1518379197_RC2710AZZ1YU_RTRMADP_3_USA-ELECTION-TRUMP.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\" data-original-height=\"2000\" data-original-width=\"3000\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/2023-03-26t013903z-1518379197-rc2710azz1yu-rtrmadp-3-usa-election-trump.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\">\n       <picture class=\"image__picture\"><source height=\"2000\" width=\"3000\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/2023-03-26t013903z-1518379197-rc2710azz1yu-rtrmadp-3-usa-election-trump.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"2000\" width=\"3000\" media=\"(min-width: 960px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/2023-03-26t013903z-1518379197-rc2710azz1yu-rtrmadp-3-usa-election-trump.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"2000\" width=\"3000\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/2023-03-26t013903z-1518379197-rc2710azz1yu-rtrmadp-3-usa-election-trump.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"2000\" width=\"3000\" media=\"(max-width: 479px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/2023-03-26t013903z-1518379197-rc2710azz1yu-rtrmadp-3-usa-election-trump.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/2023-03-26t013903z-1518379197-rc2710azz1yu-rtrmadp-3-usa-election-trump.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\" alt=\"Former President Donald Trump gestures during a campaign rally in Waco, Texas, on March 25, 2023.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"2000\" width=\"3000\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj000h3b6m22fr23b0@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Some of the recriminations since Trump\u2019s resounding win have taken a self-validating turn.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3aq0r63002j3b6mklj2lxo2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, fresh off winning a fourth term, issued a long statement slamming Democrats for having \u201cabandoned working class people,\u201d despite getting fewer votes than Harris there Tuesday and after four years of cheering on Biden\u2019s record, which union leaders have described as the most pro-labor in American history.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3aq0v4x002l3b6m3vclfpsu@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Harris campaign senior adviser David Plouffe responded to the blowback from his social media post implying blame on Biden by deleting his own X account \u2013 even as other Harris aides complained to CNN that the decisions and consolidation of power by Plouffe, campaign chair Jen O\u2019Malley Dillon and leading communications strategist Stephanie Cutter were what sucked the Harris-specific energy out of the run as they tried jamming her into being an Obama redux.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj000i3b6mzv8s0kda@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            But what Democrats face is much deeper than the usual finger-pointing by a losing campaign or speculation about the next set of presidential primary candidates. It goes beyond easy comments about talking more to the working class when Democrats lost ground among nearly every demographic in the presidential race.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj000j3b6mq2fxw696@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThe actual way to think about this is not moderate or progressive, liberal or conservative, but, \u2018Are you with the people, and against the elites with power?\u2019\u201d argued Rep. Pat Ryan, a New York Democrat who said he massively outperformed Harris in his competitive Hudson Valley district. \u201cThat\u2019s the reality for the people on the ground.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj000k3b6mhq0mjr04@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Decades of Democrats talking about and making substantive moves to improve the economic standing of people outside the wealthiest didn\u2019t make much of a difference. Nor did the measures enacted by the Biden administration and the forward-looking promises Harris made after she took over the campaign, much to the consternation of the president and top aides.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj000l3b6mrw3oymp5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cIn any political landscape, we need normal people to feel a sense of agency. We need people who are driving trucks and changing diapers and turning wrenches to run for office,\u201d said Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, who won a tight rematch in Washington state against a Trump-style Republican she\u2019d first beaten coming straight out of the auto repair shop she runs with her husband. \u201cIt\u2019s not that we shouldn\u2019t have lawyers in Congress. It\u2019s that we need a body that\u2019s representative of the American experience. We need to change our idea of who is credentialed and capable of holding elected office.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj000m3b6m1sc11xtc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cWe don\u2019t fix politics,\u201d Gluesenkamp Perez said, \u201cby becoming more political.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cm3apvgoi002d3b6m9534unie@published\" class=\"image image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"c-2024-11-06T215422Z_1805756142_HP1EKB61OUJ9D_RTRMADP_3_USA-ELECTION-HARRIS.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"2400\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-2024-11-06t215422z-1805756142-hp1ekb61ouj9d-rtrmadp-3-usa-election-harris.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\">\n       <picture class=\"image__picture\"><source height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-2024-11-06t215422z-1805756142-hp1ekb61ouj9d-rtrmadp-3-usa-election-harris.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(min-width: 960px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-2024-11-06t215422z-1805756142-hp1ekb61ouj9d-rtrmadp-3-usa-election-harris.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-2024-11-06t215422z-1805756142-hp1ekb61ouj9d-rtrmadp-3-usa-election-harris.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(max-width: 479px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-2024-11-06t215422z-1805756142-hp1ekb61ouj9d-rtrmadp-3-usa-election-harris.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-2024-11-06t215422z-1805756142-hp1ekb61ouj9d-rtrmadp-3-usa-election-harris.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\" alt=\"Supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris react following Harris' remarks, conceding 2024 U.S. presidential election to President-elect Donald Trump, at Howard University in Washington, DC, on November 6. \" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj000o3b6mkiuk6rcs@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            From when Biden declared for reelection through when Harris took over, aides at campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, would often brag about the \u201ctrusted voices\u201d they were lining up \u2013 community leaders or niche celebrities who could validate the candidate to voters who weren\u2019t sold. Democrats who won on Tuesday told CNN that getting to more wins and a future for America that isn\u2019t forever defined by Trumpism would require candidates themselves to be those trusted voices.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj000p3b6mm683sofg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            One party strategist argued the focus shouldn\u2019t be so much on finding a \u201cJoe Rogan for Democrats,\u201d as has become a popular postelection cause on social media, but finding Democrats who can go on Rogan\u2019s podcast or similar outlets. (Rogan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/04\/politics\/joe-rogan-trump-endorsement\/index.html\">who endorsed Trump<\/a> a day before the election, had backed Sanders in the 2020 Democratic primaries after the Vermont senator\u2019s appearance on his podcast.)\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj000q3b6mxnelxmgl@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Factors like that will define the next generation of Democrats, multiple leading operatives and strategists argued, even as some prospective leaders start making moves \u2013 Pritzker with a news conference Thursday vowing to stand in the way of any Trump attempts to hurt people who live in his state; Tim Walz drawing a similar line as he returned to his duties as Minnesota governor; and California Gov. Gavin Newsom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/07\/politics\/california-governor-special-session-trump-presidency\/index.html\">calling for a special legislative session<\/a> in a show of preemptively pushing back on the incoming president.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3aq2j13002n3b6mzfsiqbsy@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            And more Democrats around the country are turning to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/27\/politics\/hakeem-jeffries-democrat-speaker-trump-harris\/index.html\">Hakeem Jeffries<\/a>, the House minority leader, especially if enough of the outstanding races break their way to make him speaker.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj000r3b6mo1owv3pa@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            But Democratic operatives involved in key races told CNN they don\u2019t know how to figure out what those voters who went for Trump want, or how they\u2019re doing in appealing to them.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj000s3b6m69g9e9mn@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Asked who she sees as potential leaders for the party going forward, Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig said it was \u201ctoo early to answer that question.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj000t3b6mba37nk8v@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThat would be coming to a conclusion before we\u2019ve actually had a true opportunity to dissect what happened and figure out how to move forward,\u201d she told CNN on Friday, days after winning a fourth term in a district south of the Twin Cities.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj000u3b6mofks7t9r@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Craig is a moderate. She\u2019s also a married lesbian with a strong Democratic voting record, with four bills from her first term in Congress that Trump signed. On the trail, she talked about reproductive rights and freedom, but also about apprenticeships over student loans and getting tough on the border.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj000v3b6mqusw8zlh@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In a state where her popular governor was the No. 2 on the Democratic ticket, Craig said she ran ahead of Harris in a district the vice president barely won.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj000w3b6mk2sd6r1f@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cIf I\u2019m talking to working folks and I\u2019m really listening to them, when an administration puts forward a college loan debt forgiveness program, my immediate reaction is, \u2018My God, my noncollege-educated working people are going to be really pissed off about that,\u2019\u201d Craig said. \u201cIf you don\u2019t know where the American people are, or if you dismiss them and say, \u2018Well, I don\u2019t like where you are,\u2019 this is going to continue over and over and over again.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj000y3b6mnbkkryg8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The concerns that have aired out since the election aren\u2019t new. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/13\/politics\/obama-campaign-trail-harris-biden\/index.html\">In sessions over the past year<\/a> with up-and-coming House Democrats at his office in Washington, Obama urged them to think about how not to come across as \u201ccoastal elites.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj000z3b6m331cd5jw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Find bills that seem like they\u2019re relevant, he told them. Legislation introduced by Gluesenkamp Perez and New York Rep. Joe Morelle to clear the way for people to get the parts to repair their own cars and other products without going through the usually more expensive manufacturers\u2019<strong> <\/strong>processes was a perfect example, the former president said, according to people in the room. Another was Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro\u2019s campaign promise, fulfilled with an executive order on his first day in office, to remove the college degree requirement for a range of government jobs.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj00103b6m0y1q901q@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Harris said in the final week of her campaign that she would sign a similar order on her first day in office, but it came in response to a question, almost as an afterthought rather than a big announcement or consistent theme.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj00113b6maiybxcbn@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cWe need to take back the reins on what is \u2018sexy,\u2019\u201d Gluesenkamp Perez said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj00123b6mjt8crjas@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Pennsylvania Rep. Chris Deluzio, who increased his own 2022 vote margin in his district outside Pittsburgh and said he ran ahead of both Harris and Democratic Sen. Bob Casey, attributed his victory in part to acknowledging that the border was a problem but also to making local economic arguments that went hard at big corporations for raising prices in ways that evoked the New Deal more than \u201cBidenomics.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj00133b6mxl0rvolr@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThe more Democrats have gotten away from that, the more you\u2019ve given space for a guy like Trump to yell about tariffs \u2013 and people want to listen,\u201d Deluzio said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj00143b6mdkavl165@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            To Deluzio, the woman in that western Pennsylvania focus group from September sounded like voters he knows in his district.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj00153b6ml8sjt078@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cYou cannot have a candidate or a movement or a party be perceived as resenting people,\u201d he said.\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cm3apxmvv002f3b6myvxkzg1b@published\" class=\"image image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"c-AP24311012603756.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"2400\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-ap24311012603756.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\">\n       <picture class=\"image__picture\"><source height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-ap24311012603756.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(min-width: 960px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-ap24311012603756.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-ap24311012603756.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" media=\"(max-width: 479px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-ap24311012603756.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/c-ap24311012603756.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\" alt=\"Voters fill out their ballots at a polling site at the First Presbyterian Church of Dearborn on Tuesday in Michigan.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1600\" width=\"2400\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj00173b6m73ist272@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            By the time of the next election, though, Obama will be 67, a full generation from his victory speech in Grant Park, and more time into his post-presidential life removed from the young voters \u2013 especially the young Black men he still feels most in touch with. Biden will be 86. Bill Clinton will be 82. Jimmy Carter, if he keeps holding on, will be 104. And though Harris\u2019 concession speech was written in part to position her as a future party leader, several in the know said she hasn\u2019t spent time thinking what that would be. The generation of operatives that came with each of them are aging out, too.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj00183b6mqivdsd6e@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Democrats looking for silver linings point to 2004, when George W. Bush\u2019s reelection and wide-scale Democratic defeats were followed two years later by the party taking control of Congress and then Obama leading them to victory in 2008 and ultimately a 60-vote majority in the Senate. They also note that Trump\u2019s last election in 2016 spurred its own revolution in creating new Democratic stars.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj00193b6m8uwiguom@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Much will change over the next four years, including culture and technology. Liberals will be entering a decade into outrage at Trump. A generation of voters will have grown up fully in the age of Trump. The scale of what he will do to upend the government and the economy can only be guessed. Politics is certainly going to change, in ways that are impossible to predict.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj001a3b6m3h6tvpou@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            It already has, at least internally among Democrats. Because ranked-choice voting decided San Francisco\u2019s mayoral election, Tuesday also saw what was effectively the first primary of this new era, with Levi Strauss heir and political newcomer Daniel Lurie unseating incumbent London Breed, a fellow Democrat, by running on a platform of rejecting liberal sensibilities in favor of managing a city that has seen spikes in concerns about street crime and open drug use in recent years.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj001b3b6m8jl1zj70@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In the end, the money and energy that went into Harris\u2019 multi-city election eve concerts, which ended with Oprah Winfrey introducing will.i.am for a rehashed \u201cYes She Can\u201d version of his pro-Obama song, missed what was happening on the ground miles from the concert sites. The millions that went toward those concerts \u2013 and the campaign debts left to cover \u2013 may turn out to be a perfect metaphor for the chapter of the Democratic Party now closing.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj001c3b6mx6y2qbdf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            And to Democrats or progressive activists in deep-blue areas who still believe that the answer should be doing more of the same, just faster and stronger, those who held on this year plead no.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm3an68xj001d3b6m2ey32jrj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cCome to my district and spend a week with me and see if you still feel the same way. 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