Trump will hand Democrats an opportunity 'to get their mojo back': analyst
According to longtime political analyst, John Heilemann, overreach by the incoming Donald Trump administration will open the door to Democrats gaining back voters they lost in the 2024 election.
During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Heilemann said the Democratic Party has an image problem that depressed turnout for Vice President Kamala Harris, but it is not an insurmountable problem.
"It started with weakness with white working-class voters and now with Latino working-class voters and increasingly with working-class Black men and that's not a position that allows for the Democratic party to be the majority party in America," he told the panel.
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"We still have a country where you know, 60 percent of the country is not college-educated and if you are not able to compete for working-class votes, you cannot be a majority party," he elaborated. "And I think a lot of Democrats, when they think about what has to happen now, figuring that out and also figuring out this thing that Rahm [Emmanuel] was talking about, which is the party has become the party for a lot of people of the establishment, of the institutions and of the rich to some extent."
"That the fact that it's become the party of college-educated voters also means more affluent voters," he added. "This Trump administration offers some opportunities to again, to the point that Rev. Al Sharpton made for Democrats to get their mojo back in the populous lane, in the reform lane. Try to make these arguments about what you are seeing, or about to see in the Trump administration going forward, in terms of almost a pay-for-play element where it looks like kind of a give-away to plutocrats; it's a thing that, it opens opportunities for Democrats on both fronts."
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