Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.) admitted that the Democratic Party has lost touch with voters and needs to return to “bread-and-butter basics.”
CNN’s “State of the Union” host Jake Tapper on Sunday asked Kaine his thoughts about why the Democrat Party is so “staggeringly unpopular” with voters, evidenced by recent polls and the sound rejection of Kamala Harris and the Democrats in the presidential election in November.
“We saw some stark numbers this week about how the American people view the Democratic Party. You see there, this is a Quinnipiac poll: 57% of the American people have an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party. Only 31% favorable. This is the worst number for the Democratic Party since Quinnipiac University began asking the question. It’s not an outlier; a recent CNN poll found a 33-year low favorable rating with the Democratic Party. Why is your party so staggeringly unpopular with the public?” Tapper asked him.
Kaine said that he can’t speak for why voters rejected the Democrats nationwide, but argued that Democrats have been making political inroads in his state of Virginia in recent years.
“I’m a Virginian. I know one state well and not so well, the other 49. In Virginia, we’ve gone from one of the most ruby red states in the country to now having put electoral votes behind Democrats five elections in a row. I just won my reelection by a sizable margin against Donald Trump’s hand-picked Republican opponent,” Kaine said.
The Virginia senator went on to claim that Democrats need to focus more on the economy and standard of living, especially as President Trump rolls out his tariffs against Mexico, Canada and China.
“I’ll tell you how we’ve done it. We focus on the economy. This is what we do in Virginia. I think sometimes national Democrats don’t,” Kaine said. “We focus on competent government and running the economy in a great way that focuses on innovation and advancing. We call we have what we call a ‘make, build, grow’ agenda. While the Republicans are talking about cutting taxes and cutting regulation. And most people understand that tax cutting is just for the wealthiest.”
“So yeah, the American public looks at standard campaigns, they don’t see Democrats advertising on the economy, which is their principal concern and so they have wonders about us,” he continued. “Let’s return to the bread-and-butter basics that people want to really focus on. I think the Democrats can do well, especially when Donald Trump’s tariffs are driving up their prices every day.”
Despite electing two white guys to lead the party on Saturday, including Gen Z gun control activist David Hogg, Democrats continue to reel from their election defeat with no clear leader of the party or policies that can effectively counter Donald Trump.
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