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Representative Ritchie Torres, Dn.y., told Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville that Democrats need to distance themselves from the extreme left to recover popularity among everyday Americans.
The representative of the South Bronx said on Thursday to Carville and “Politics War Room”, the co-elanfitrion of Al Hunt, that the Democrats must return to the basic concepts and focus on the issues that affect the Americans of the working class and abandon the “fashionable nonsense”. He also concentrated on a particular issue, saying the failure of the party: “Where … we consider more the responsibility of immigration.”
“We (Democrats) should strive for simple and repeatable messages, nothing elegant, such as lower costs, safe streets, safe borders, protect Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare, make the government work for workers. That should be our platform. Ignore fashion nonsense.”
Representative Ritchie Torres, a Democrat who represents South Bronx, told James Carville that Democrats must meet the ‘simple repeatable’ messages, focusing on issues that affect everyday Americans. (Al Drago/Bloomberg through Getty Images)
Hunt acknowledged that while he and Carville believe that most Democrats would agree with what Torres said, that is not the current perception of the Democratic Party. He asked Torres if the Democrats who were too focused on “marginal problems” had led to this perception of the party.
While Torres ruled out cultural problems As of “tertiary importance” in the 2024 elections, he admitted that the Republicans had defeated the Democratic Party when dealing with economic and immigration problems.
“I feel that cultural problems were of tertiary importance in the elections. I felt that the main reasons we lost were inflation and immigration. I know that the interruptions of the supply chain led to the greatest inflation in more than four decades and when you are the party in the power that presided over inflation, it will pay you a political price. Then, when it reaches inflation, we as the democrats were victims of the circumstances. Torres Historic Historic said.
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Although he felt that the Democrats were “victims of circumstances” in economic matters, he recognized the deficiencies of the party when it was immigration.
“Where we (the Democrats), I believe, with more responsibility, it is in immigration. You know, since 2022, there was an overwhelming migration flow on the border whose impact was felt in cities like New York, where the refuge system and the Social Security network and our finances were complete The impact of the city of New York.
Torres felt that former President Joe Biden could not address the crisis on the southern border in a timely manner in an attempt to satisfy the extreme left. (Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg through Getty Images)
Torres then accused former president Joe Biden of “pleased the extreme left” after waiting for more than two years to address the crisis on the southern border, although reducing illegal immigration was popular among almost all demographic groups in the country.
“There was a survey on the President’s Executive Order (Joe Biden) that restricted migration. The survey revealed that most of the Americans, in black and white, Latinos and Asians, were overwhelmingly in favor of their executive order. Then, if their executive order was effective to reduce migration, if it was widely popular among US people, why I waited so much before it acted so much before it acted so much before it acted so much. Little more popular to bleach, if it was a lot of towers, “Torres,” and the answer was the answer: it was the distant of bleach, if it was a large number of people, “Torres,” and the answer was the answer: it was the distant to the bleach to the bleach, if it was a large amount among the American people, “who expected so much before? affirmed.
The congressman believes that the extreme left “has overcome power over the messages and the formulation of policies of the Democratic party”, which believes that the Democrats “are much less viable in the general elections.”
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