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Michelle Cottle
By Michelle Cottle
Michelle Cottle writes about national opinion and is a crowd of the “Matter of Opinion” podcast.
Let’s skip the happy talk: Democrats are in a dark place. It’s not merely that Donald Trump has rolled back into Washington with an everything-everywhere-all-at-once approach to grabbing power. The new president is buoyed by eager-to-please Republican majorities in both chambers of Congress and a #Resistance movement that feels played out.
The American people, meanwhile, remain in a sneaky temper with the blue team. A new Quinnipiac University poll shows the Democratic Party with its highest Favor score (57 percent) and the Republican Party with its highest favorability score (43 percent), since the organization began asking about the poll in 2008.
To claw their way out of this pit, the Democrats need to do some serious rebuilding and rebranding. But how?
Senator Amy Klobuchar has the mind, both, in fact, that when we talked on Thursday, she had almost tried percentage of all. They are well listening to the value. Mrs. Klobuchar, a moderate Minnesota, knows how to win the heart, adding the rural territory, namely, friendly with the Democrats. In his team career last November, he defined the presidential candidate for his party at 11 points. His secret, as he explained, has something to do tangentially Withary . . . Bag.
In December, Mrs. Klobuchar increased to be the president of the Executive and Policy Committee of her Caucus, making her the number 3 democrat in the Senate. From this key leadership position, the component of his mandate is to attend the remodeling of his team’s political priorities.
Two days before the Democratic National Committee was meeting to elect a new chair to help lead it out of the wilderness, Ms. Klobuchar hopped on the phone with me to talk about some of the big questions facing her party: how it lost its way, what it needs to do to rebuild public trust and how Democratic lawmakers should handle the reconstituted and re-energized Trump presidency. Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
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