In an interview with ABC’s Jonathan Karl on Sunday, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) voiced his displeasure with the Democratic Party’s failure to provide a “coordinated response” to President Donald Trump.
Schiff said, “I think the lack of a coordinated response in the State of the Union was a mistake, and frankly, it took the focus away from where it should have been, which is on the fact that the president spoke for an hour and forty minutes and had nothing to say about what he would do to bring down costs for American families who were sitting at the kitchen table watching that lengthy address, hoping he would offer something to help them afford health care, pay their kid’s tuition, or buy a new home.”
The legislator responded to criticism of the Democratic statement from Senator John Fetterman, who described it as “a sad cavalcade of self-owns and unhinged petulance.”
The economy is being destroyed, and Americans are finding it more and more difficult to afford goods. Schiff asserted—falsely, given the most recent economic data—that “that’s where we need to keep the focus, that’s why we lost the last election, because we weren’t laser-focused on the high cost of living and what they’re doing now is just making it so much worse.”
Schiff was also questioned by Karl about the Democratic Party’s response to the president. The host of ABC News explicitly cited James Carville, a Democratic strategist who has advocated for the party to “play dead” and contemplate a calculated political withdrawal.
Though he didn’t address why Democrats under Biden didn’t implement stronger economic policies to do that, Schiff stated that he disagreed with that strategy and added that his party needed its “own broad, bold agenda to improve the economic well-being of Americans.”
Instead of just allowing policies fall apart under the corrupt weight of their own weight, we must be promoting them and arguing for what we have to give. That doesn’t seem sufficient to me. As is, we must employ lawsuits effectively. He continued, “As we are, we must successfully use communication to speak to new individuals in new ways.
“In fact, the problem is the Democrats have been playing dead for too many years,” stated Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, one of the several left-leaning members of Congress who rejected Carville’s proposal.
Fetterman criticized the reactions to Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress last week on social media.
“A depressing parade of self-centeredness and uncontrollable pique.” Trump only appears more composed and presidential as a result. In a post on X, the senator stated, “We’re turning into the car alarms that no one listens to—and it might not be the winning message.”
Schiff was also questioned by Karl about the Democratic Party’s response to the president. The host of ABC News explicitly cited James Carville, a Democratic strategist who has advocated for the party to “play dead” and contemplate a calculated political withdrawal.
Though he didn’t address why Democrats under Biden didn’t implement stronger economic policies to do that, Schiff stated that he disagreed with that strategy and added that his party needed its “own broad, bold agenda to improve the economic well-being of Americans.”
Instead of just allowing policies fall apart under the corrupt weight of their own weight, we must be promoting them and arguing for what we have to give. That doesn’t seem sufficient to me. As is, we must employ lawsuits effectively. He continued, “As we are, we must successfully use communication to speak to new individuals in new ways.
“In fact, the problem is the Democrats have been playing dead for too many years,” stated Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, one of the several left-leaning members of Congress who rejected Carville’s proposal.
Fetterman criticized the reactions to Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress last week on social media.
“A depressing parade of self-centeredness and uncontrollable pique.” Trump only appears more composed and presidential as a result. In a post on X, the senator stated, “We’re turning into the car alarms that no one listens to—and it might not be the winning message.”