Sweeping Democratic victories in off-year elections seem to be foreshadowing a very good midterms for the party, and one expert believes it’s even bigger than that.
“This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fundamentally transform legislative power,” Heather Williams, president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC), which focuses on electing Democrats to statehouses, told Mother Jones.
We didn’t exactly prep anyone to replace him either.
We knew for years Manchin would eventually leave, and we opted to just give up the seat more or less rather than setting up another Democrat like him or even one that could sway West Virginian voters like Bernie managed to do in 2025!
We could 100% run progressives in rural Red states and win. They just need to paint a vision of hope for these people and give them a common person making their problems worse, the billionaires and big corporations.
Yeah, it should be easy for rural voters to see the benefits of Dems and to see how republicans are actively harming them. Just need somebody to say it.
I agree, our messaging is so bad in terms of actually reaching these people. Politicians need to get out of their comfort zones and give a compelling message to these voters.
It’s shocking how little of the Democratic platform even reaches these people’s ears and what little they do hear is wishy washy corporate speak rather than giving direct ways a progressive platform can change their life for the better.