Nate Cohn

To the extent they want the party to move to the left or the right, they'd rather see it move a little toward the center, but not too much.

Nate Cohn is the Times' chief political analyst.

There aren't issues where they want the Democrats to embrace the conservative view on, say, transgender issues or something like that.

But they would like to see the party somehow moderate a little bit on these cultural issues, maybe without moving to the right.

And they would like to see some kind of economic populism.

That's where they were likeliest to say they want to see the party to move to the left.

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We did not find very much good news for the president.

We did find that a majority of Republicans still support the president.

So, you know, in that sense, the outcome of recent primary elections isn't very surprising.