Letters to the Editor
If the Democrats think Kamala Harris should run for another office or their problem in 2024 was bad messaging, they’ll continue to lose.
Business
Long before the battle over Roe vs. Wade, Republicans used to be the champions of abortion rights. What happened?
A reader is skeptical of Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s claim that her party needs to dramatically change its messaging.
Politics
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez was just reelected to Congress from a rural district in Washington state. Her experience offers lessons on how Democrats might win working-class voters.
Democrats need to “get off our moral high horse and rethink our attitudes so the people will actually choose us,” says a reader. “Our attitude feels good, but it is stupid.”
Opinion
Trump’s portrayal of Kamala Harris as an enemy of Israel is disingenuous, but Oct. 7 and the Gaza war have tested her party’s relationship with a reliable base.
California
California state Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil switched from Democrat to Republican as her rural district northeast of the Central Valley has moved toward the GOP.
The California Labor Federation shunned partisanship in favor of a campaign focusing on hard work and noting the lack of congressional accomplishment. The strategy helped flip a handful of House seats.
It’s rich that Donald Trump, who tried overturn the 2020 election, and his allies in the GOP are trying to portray Harris’ ascendance as undemocratic. A consensus is not a coup or a conspiracy.
Trump’s obvious and clumsy attempt to make an issue of Harris’ race should fall flat. But will it?