{"id":2403472,"date":"2025-02-17T16:16:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T21:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-keep-insisting-their-problem-is-podcasts-its-their-policies\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T16:18:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T21:18:29","slug":"dems-keep-insisting-their-problem-is-podcasts-its-their-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-keep-insisting-their-problem-is-podcasts-its-their-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Keep Insisting Their Problem Is Podcasts (It&#8217;s Their Policies)"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdems-keep-insisting-their-problem-is-podcasts-its-their-policies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2403472&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Over the upcoming month, The New \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/are-covid-case-surges-more-fake-news\/\" title=\"Are COVID Case Surges More Fake News?\">york times<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-threatens-to-sue-roger-stone-and-demands-apology-for-defamation-report\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden threatens to sue Roger Stone and demands apology for &#039;defamation&#039;: Report\">hosting discussions<\/a> with Democratic leaders on one of its podcasts, focusing on strategies to regain\u2062 voters \u2062who shifted toward Donald Trump. The discussions suggest \u200ca common theme among Democrat leaders: the need for improved messaging \u2064and media strategy without changing existing policies. The first episode featured newly elected Senator Ruben Gallego\u200c from Arizona, who acknowledged that \u200cDemocrats failed to &#8220;meet \u2063the moment&#8221; but did not specify which \u2062policies were rejected by voters.<\/p>\n<p>Gallego attributed the party&#8217;s \u200blosses to\u200c a lack of effective communication rather than acknowledging the detrimental effects of their policies,\u200b such as \u2062rising inflation and immigration challenges, as \u2062well \u2064as international conflicts. He\u2063 described his outreach efforts, including hosting \u2062taco\u2062 gatherings to engage with working-class Latino men, emphasizing the importance of understanding \u200dtheir\u200b perspectives and accessing various communication platforms. He \u2062argued that Trump\u2019s visibility in \u2062spaces appealing to younger\u200c Latino audiences, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sam-smith-and-satan-the-meaning-behind-the-devil-worship\/\" title=\"Sam Smith and Satan: The Meaning Behind the Devil-Worship\">including podcasts<\/a> and events, \u2062was key to his outreach success.<\/p>\n<p>The senator\u2019s comments reflected\u200b a broader tendency among Democrats to blame electoral failures on communication gaps rather than the policies they implement. Gallego proposed that greater presence at\u2064 popular events could enhance their connection with voters, though critics argue these strategies address symptoms rather than root causes. the\u200c ongoing series is likely to feature similar sentiments \u2064from \u200dother Democratic figures, continuing \u2064the theme \u2062of communication challenges rather than policy reassessment.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Over the next month, The New York Times is running conversations with Democrat leaders on one of its podcasts about how the party will &ldquo;win back the voters who moved toward&rdquo; Donald Trump. I&rsquo;ll just go ahead and summarize what each subject is likely to say, which is some variation of &ldquo;We need better messaging and media strategy, and regarding our policies, no changes necessary.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Such was the series&rsquo; inaugural <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/15\/magazine\/ruben-gallego-interview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">episode<\/a>, in which freshly sworn-in Democrat Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona did the same dance his party has been doing since November. On the one hand, he claimed that Democrats failed to &ldquo;meet the moment,&rdquo; and on the other, he didn&rsquo;t name a single one of his party&rsquo;s policies that voters rejected.<\/p>\n<p>Like every other Democrat leader, Gallego hung the party&rsquo;s defeat on everything <em>but<\/em> its grotesque policies that directly ignited wild inflation, flooded the country with millions of destitute migrants, and sparked two foreign hot wars that are sucking enormous U.S. attention and resources.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite parts of the interview were when Gallego, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-elections\/arizona-senate-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">won his election<\/a> by less than 100,000 votes (against Kari Lake), theorized on the best ways for his party to speak with voters &mdash; which is always described by Democrats as if they&rsquo;re trying to learn how to communicate with nonverbal prehistoric tribesmen. &ldquo;I mean, so one of the things I did is I would host morning tacos at work sites, right, during the election,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;So I would go set up, knowing when the 5:30 a.m. shift was coming off, and I&rsquo;d set up tacos. And I&rsquo;d hand out tacos to the dudes, and I&rsquo;d talk to them about life. And we have to understand where they are. We have to understand what they&rsquo;re hearing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Gallego went on to say working-class Latino men are forming their political opinions by &ldquo;hearing it from the one dude that heard it from WhatsApp, or the one dude that&rsquo;s listening to talk radio.&rdquo; He said, &ldquo;There&rsquo;s no one saying like, Well, actually, I heard from another guy that Democrats are actually doing this. Doesn&rsquo;t happen. It just doesn&rsquo;t happen because there&rsquo;s no way for us to give them that information, because we&rsquo;re not going to where they are.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This is the irksome language Democrats excel at when they either have no idea what they&rsquo;re talking about, or, more commonly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">don&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t want to admit they&rsquo;ve made a royal mess on the mattress. Democrats don&rsquo;t have talk radio and WhatsApp to plead their case? Yes, they do. They&rsquo;re not at some difficult disadvantage of the medium. They&rsquo;re invited everywhere. But fewer and fewer voters are interested in what they&rsquo;re selling.<\/p>\n<p>In another portion of the interview, Gallego offered up my favorite excuse for the Democrat electoral failure of 2024: They weren&rsquo;t busy showing up on podcasts. &ldquo;What else is the difference is that the way Trump communicates is actually more apt to get younger Latino men voters, because where they gather their information, where they listen to politics, is where Trump is more often, versus where we are,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s on podcasts all the time. He&rsquo;s at U.F.C. fights. He&rsquo;s at all these things where they actually see him being a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">real quote unquote man<\/a>. I also warned Democrats about that. We needed to get out there.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Gallego also said he had &ldquo;wanted President Biden to go to the Copa America game and sit next to some Latino celebrity.&rdquo; Of Democrats, he said, &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s go to some boxing matches, right? Let&rsquo;s take some Democrats to boxing matches where a lot of Latinos are.&rdquo; It would have been fun to watch, if not for the reasons the senator had hoped for. (The thought of Charles Schumer and Nancy Pelosi pretending to enjoy mingling with minorities is hilarious.)<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s all the same. They insist their problems were rooted in being unable to speak some undefined but apparently highly complicated language (&ldquo;quote unquote man&rdquo;) and say nothing of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/06\/insolent-democrats-are-going-to-end-up-creating-their-own-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">how they ruined everything<\/a> with the destructive policies they enacted.<\/p>\n<p>Sending Joe Biden to a cage match was not going to make him popular. Trotting Kamala Harris out to sell empanadas was not going to change anything. There isn&rsquo;t a podcast in the world that would have convinced middle-income voters their personal finances were solid.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a different Democrat interviewed by the Times at the end of this week. He will say the same thing as Gallego.<\/p>\n<hr><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times is hosting discussions with Democrats on regaining Trump voters, likely emphasizing improved messaging<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2403473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Kamala-Harris.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3933,13550,4600],"class_list":["post-2403472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dems","tag-podcasts","tag-policies"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Kamala-Harris.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2403472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403476,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403472\/revisions\/2403476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2403473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2403472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2403472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2403472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}