“In a cycle when that is the case, do the Democrats get their message wrong by focusing for instance on threats to democracy as opposed to economics as the top issue?” Scuitto asked.
[Van] Jones said in individual races across the country, Democratic candidates have spoken on the issue. But he deducted points from Democrats at a national level for being out of touch with voters’ concerns:
I think there was this kind of fool’s gold, this idea that the threat to democracy is so severe in the wake of this insurrection and wake of these election deniers possibly grabbing control of the government, that that was something that you had to talk about.
But you also have to talk about the economy. I think the tragedy here is that the Democrats have something to say on the economy.
[If Democrats had something to say on the economy, they would have said it already. And they actually did try the “Republicans are worse” message in the last couple of weeks, but it clearly didn’t work. — Ed]
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