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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on gun violence on Capitol Hill. J. Scott Applewhite/AP

House Democrats Look for a Winning Message After Loss to Trump

The economy. Cultural issues. Bipartisanship. Introspection. Democrats have a lot of feelings about the 2024 election and where they went wrong.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on gun violence on Capitol Hill. J. Scott Applewhite/AP

Strategists, pundits and campaign operatives have years to dissect the 2024 election, but Democratic lawmakers have only a matter of weeks to get their act together before Donald Trump returns to power.

In the days since Kamala Harris’ resounding defeat, there’s been little consensus among Democratic lawmakers on how they ought to shift the party’s identity and how best to take on the second Trump administration’s agenda.

“I would be lying if I said that strategy is fully baked at this point,” California Rep. Jared Huffman told NOTUS. “But I certainly am talking to colleagues who have great ideas and who have begun gaming out some of these scenarios.”