Former Clinton aide gives Democrats harsh 'free advice' to avoid 2028 defeat
A former advisor of the Clinton family has come forward and thinks he knows what would help Democrats avoid another landslide defeat like they suffered in 2024.
It is as yet unknown where these nuggets of truth were when former first lady Hillary Clinton was running against the current president, as The Daily Mail reported.
Top pollster and former Bill Clinton adviser Mark Penn offered his "free advice" during a recent Fox News interview.
Penn told host Bill Hemmer that Democrats need to make "fundamental change" if they plan to win in the future.
Poor Polling
Recent polls show that Democrats and the party, in general, only have a 29% favorability rating overall, according to CNN.
Another, even less flattering poll, said that the leftist party only has 27% support overall, if NBC's data is to be believed.
"These are very very serious signals from this electorate," Penn said.
Penn cautioned that the party was endangering a return to their 1984 level of power, when they won just one state in the presidential election.
What's Behind the Analysis
"To drop to around 27 to 30 means that almost half of people who support the Democratic party now have defected and saying I don’t really understand what this party stands for, how it got so off track and how it supported a president who really wasn’t competent, how it left the border open," Penn said.
Penn placed blame on the furthest reaches of left-leaning progressives who have staked thaked their claim at the expense of the party.
According to Penn, that faction of the group hurt the Biden administration when they pushed him further and further left on campaign policies.
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"The Progressives are on a tear. Let’s remember that the presidency of Joe Biden was basically owned by the left and Progressives," Penn said.
"All of what was put through, open border essentially, or whether it was the change in cultural policies, essentially the left owned the administration."
Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, according to Penn, are leading the party with "even more radical policies," and the party needs to return to its moderate stance.
Props to Schumer
He gave credit to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who kept the government running despite opposition from lawmakers on the left, and for rushing to pass the budget bill.
"He saved the Democrats from an even bigger fiasco and got out of the way here," Penn said.
He added that the party would not have an official leader until the 2028 presidential primaries and that there would be an ongoing struggle for its idealogical future.
"There is going to be a fight for the heart and soul of the party and maybe they will come back to the center or maybe they will even get further isolated into the wilderness," he said. "I have no answer."