(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — The head of the Democratic National Committee has been traveling around the country attempting to get the party back on track, and avoiding recent mistakes.
Ken Martin, the newly elected chairman of the DNC was in Chicago last week. He says the party wrongly ignored such deep blue states in the last elections and suffered.
“When you ignore blue states, it's the same result if you ignore red states. A red state is never going to become a purple state or a blue state if you don't organize there, if you don't spend some time, energy, and money, and that's true in blue states as well,” Marin said.
And so when you ignore reliably blue cities like Chicago or reliably blue states like Illinois, you start to see some slippage
And Martin says Democrats allowed the Republican Party to position itself as champions of the working class, and polls show voter perceptions shifted.
“For the first time in American history, the perceptions of the two political parties has flipped. That the majority of Americans now believe the Republican Party best represents the interests of the working class and the poor, and the Democratic Party is a party of the wealthy and the elite,” Martin said.
“And we know that's not true, but it suggests that we have to do a better job of making sure that folks know that we're fighting for them, that we see them, we hear them.
Now, he says, it's up to Democrats to show how the Trump Administration is ignoring their everyday pocketbook issues.
He says the message now is that the flurry of executive orders and cost-cutting actions President Trump and Elon Musk have executed have not done anything to address the economic anxiety many Americans are feeling.
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