Democrats face wake-up call as voters reject current strategy

WASHINGTON (TNND) — A growing number of Democrats say the party needs to do some soul-searching following Tuesday’s election results.

They'll now have two years before the midterms to dissect the party's shortcomings following the election results and try to win back voters who handed Republicans the White House, the Senate, and potentially the House of Representatives.Some say it starts with what the party was focusing on.

“Women's issues, but it played a lesser role and you felt it out there in immigration. And quite frankly, I think the economy and immigration were the two issues that people were intense and emotional onI think I'm one of those people that's been saying all day Democrats have got to do some very serious soul searching and there's some really complicated problems here," said Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., posted on X it’s “no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.” While not every Democrat agrees with that statement, there is a growing belief that singling out Donald Trump and not day-to-day problems of Americans led to a losing strategy.

“I think where we need to go, candidly is to focus less about every one of his legal issues and all of the things about Donald Trump, and focus more on the American people, go to these communities that we have lost, listen to them. Try to understand why they're angry, why they're frustrated," said Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif.

Former Virginia Democratic Congressman Jim Moran, who served in Congress for 24 years, says today’s Democratic party is not meeting the American people where they’re at.

“We marched too far to the left and fell off a cliff. They need to look inward. Who, who are you really speaking to? Who’s your audience, because it was clear Tuesday that their audience is not representative of the majority of the American population," he told The National News Desk.

Plenty of different factions in the Democratic party will likely do their own autopsies now about what went wrong and what needs to change moving forward into a second Trump Presidency.