Raskin: Democrats in 'fight of our lives'
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said Democrats are in “the fight of our lives” following President-elect Trump’s victory in the 2024 election.
“We’re not gonna change our values,” Raskin said on “All in with Chris Hayes” on Wednesday. “We’re not gonna abandon American constitutional democracy because we lost an election by … 1 and a half percent. We’re not gonna abandon the rule of law.”
“We’re gonna be recruiting and mobilizing hundreds of thousands and millions of more people to get out there and be leaders in this fight,” he added. “What else can we do? This is not a game of volleyball or badminton where we’re gonna, you know, quit the game or something. I mean, this is the fight of our lives that we’re in now.”
Trump’s win and impending return to the White House has rattled Democrats, who also lost control of the Senate and will remain in the minority in the House in the next Congress.
There have been ongoing conversations in the Democratic Party about its candidates’ performances at the polls this year, with some centrists saying the party went too left, and liberals saying it didn’t go left enough.
“Look, we lost an election by around 3 million votes,” Raskin said Wednesday. “Joe Biden had beaten Donald Trump four years before that by more than 7 million votes. So, obviously the country is closely divided, and so we’re going to alter some tactics and strategies and figure out how the right has captured a lot of the social media, and I think we have been outflanked there.”
Recent polling by The Economist/YouGov found Americans’ opinion of the Republican Party on the rise.
In the late November poll, 45 percent of Americans said they feel “favorable” toward the Republican Party, up 6 points from an Economist/YouGov poll in late October.