Addressing the Weaknesses in the Image of the Democratic Party and Reaching Out to Working-Class Democrats

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This chapter discusses Biden's approach to address the weaknesses in the Democratic Party's image and appeal to working-class voters. It emphasizes the need to focus on issues that resonate with this demographic and highlights potential talking points such as the economy, immigration, and the cost of living.

Yascha Mounk and Ruy Teixeira discuss what Biden would need to do to rebuild a broad coalition for the 2024 election.

Ruy Teixeira is a political scientist, the co-founder and politics editor of The Liberal Patriot, and the author, with John Judis, of The Emerging Democratic Majority and, most recently, Where Have All the Democrats Gone?: The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremes.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Ruy Teixeira discuss how Democrats lost the working class and what it might take to win it back; how Teixeira's theory that demographic change would favor the Democratic Party has been misinterpreted; and why Democrats, despite Trump’s unpopularity, have failed to open up a decisive lead in the polls.

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