Morning Jolt: The Democrats’ Failure to Self-Scout

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WITH JIM GERAGHTY

October 30 2024

The Democrats' Failure to Self-Scout

On the menu today: Since 2020, the Democratic Party, from Joe Biden to Kamala Harris to their handlers and staffers and campaign strategists to Capitol Hill, have operated on the assumption that a majority of the public agreed with them and that victory in 2024 just required reminding Americans of everything they didn't like about Donald Trump. And who knows, if illegal immigration hadn't surged, if prices hadn't spiked and inflation hadn't been the worst it's been in four decades, if the world weren't on fire from Lebanon to Ukraine, maybe that would have been enough. But Democrats refused to do any serious "self-scouting" — a hard, unsparing assessment of their own strengths and weaknesses — and now they're left hoping that the early vote lead for Republicans is a mirage and that their own get-out-the-vote operations will be just enough to keep the blue wall in place.

Democrats' Faulty Assumptions

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