Democrats to elect a new party chair Feb. 1

DNC vice chair hopeful suggests election was 'damning indictment' on Dems

Democratic National Committee (DNC) Vice Chair Ken Martin criticized the party for losing to Republicans this election cycle, describing the loss as a “damning indictment” from the American people ...

Politics - The Hill - 3 days ago

New York's Espaillat running unopposed for Hispanic Caucus chair

New York Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat is all but certain to lead congressional Hispanic Democrats next year, as he is running unopposed to head the group. Espaillat’s tenure as Congressional ...

Politics - The Hill - November 13

Third-party candidates could be swing-state spoilers despite strong Democrat efforts

Less than a week before Election Day, third-party candidates still present an unknown factor in key swing states where dozens of Electoral College votes are up for grabs.

Scarborough: Democratic Party 'has been just wiped out this morning'

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said former President Trump's victory in the 2024 election is bigger than just retaining the White House for Republicans. "The scope and scale of this victory is ...

Politics - The Hill - November 6

Sanders: Democratic Party 'has abandoned working class people'

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday accused the Democratic Party of largely ignoring the priorities of the working class and pointed to that as the biggest reason for why they lost control of ...

Politics - The Hill - November 6

Bernie Sanders blasts Democratic Party following Kamala Harris loss

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders issued a scathing statement on what he called the Democratic Party's "disastrous" campaign following Kamala Harris' loss.

Stephen A. Smith: Trump 'annihilation' of Harris ‘a referendum on the Democratic Party'

Sports commentator Stephan A. Smith reflected on President-elect Trump’s victory over Vice President Harris this week, saying the “annihilation” is a larger call for “a referendum on the Democratic ...

Politics - The Hill - November 8

Axelrod: Democrats becoming 'smarty-pants, suburban, college-educated party'

Political strategist David Axelrod argued Thursday that Democrats are becoming a "smarty-pants, suburban, college-educated party" that could keep losing electorally if it does not change course. ...

Politics - The Hill - November 8

Some Democrats blame party's position on transgender rights in part for Harris' loss

Desperate for answers on what went wrong on Election Day, finger-pointing among Democrats and media pundits has been swift.

Politics - NBC News - November 8

‘No time to pull punches’: is a civil war on the horizon for the Democratic party?

Accusations and recriminations abound as Democrats try to figure out what went wrong after an electoral trouncing. Joe Biden stood before the American people, millions of whom were still reeling ...

World - The Guardian - November 10

Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna says party needs "to be emphasizing the economic issues"

After President-elect Donald Trump won the White House and Republicans are poised to take control of the Senate, Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna tells "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that the ...

The Cheney-loving Democratic party needs a reckoning about war | Stephen Wertheim

Election outcomes have multiple causes, of course. Yet foreign policy was one of the reasons Americans gave Trump the largest Republican victory in decades. Last October, Joe Biden made the most ...

World - The Guardian - November 11

The Democrats must become an anti-establishment party | Robert Reich

The lesson of this election is that Democrats must attack inequality – and not cede working-class voters to Trump. A political disaster such as what occurred last Tuesday gains significance not ...

World - The Guardian - November 14

We warned the Democratic party that disaster was coming. They didn’t listen | Dustin Guastella

Can they change course? Maybe, but they need a message of commonsense solidarity without liberal elitism . Before the election it was clear that Kamala Harris ’s closing message was not landing ...

World - The Guardian - November 15

The Republican and Democratic parties are killing electoral reform across the US | David Daley

There are elements on both right and left who prefer to govern without majorities and view competitive elections as a threat. Ohio’s extreme gerrymanders have enabled more than a decade of ...

World - The Guardian - November 16

The Democrat Picking a Fight With His Party Over Transgender Rights

Even as Democrats rebuked Representative Seth Moulton of Massachusetts for saying he didn’t want his daughters “getting run over” by “formerly male” athletes, he defended his remarks.

Top stories - The New York Times - November 17

Who does the Democratic party represent? | Alex Bronzini-Vender

No politician can win without a coalition of voters. Do Democrats know who theirs are?. In September 1981, 10 months after Ronald Reagan’s sweeping 44-state victory over Jimmy Carter, 100 leading ...

World - The Guardian - November 18

Union calls Democratic party staff layoffs after record fundraising ‘callous’

Leadership accused of betraying party values after sudden announcement of layoffs without severance. The union representing workers at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has accused the ...

World - The Guardian - November 18

Vulnerable Democrats who won say party must follow their path

House Democratic front-liners have a message for leadership as the party grapples with what went wrong in this year’s elections: Follow our example. While Democrats were generally wiped out on ...

Politics - The Hill - November 19

Hakeem Jeffries wins reelection as House Democratic leader despite party's losses

House Leader Hakeem Jeffries won reelection Tuesday as the Democratic leader

Joe Biden turns 82 as Democrats begin search for younger party leaders

Party calls for generational shift and looks to younger governors after Harris’s defeat in presidential election. Joe Biden marked his 82nd birthday on Wednesday as Democrats began searching for ...

World - The Guardian - 6 days ago

The Democrats threw away a winnable election

Harris was the wrong candidate, and the consequences could be global

World - Financial Times - November 6

China targets 2mn lifts to keep its ageing population upwardly mobile

A campaign is under way to retrofit older apartments but authorities and residents are fighting over the bill