Sarah McBride
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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And look, I think abortion to some degree had been a wedge issue that was to the Democrats' advantage, not to the Republicans' advantage.
But I think we have to reorient the public's perception of what our priorities are as a party.
And I think when we lean into the culture wars and lean into culture wedge issues, even if they benefit us, they reinforce a perception that
that the Democratic Party is unconcerned with the economic needs of the American people.
When you ask a voter, what are the top five priorities of the Democratic Party?
What are the top five priorities of the Republican Party?
And what are the top five priorities for them as a voter?
Three out of the five issues that are the top issue for that voter appear in what their perception of the top five issues for the Republican Party.
Only one of their top five priorities appear in their perception of what are the top five priorities for the Democrats.
That's healthcare, and it was fifth out of five.
The top two were abortion and LGBTQ issues.
And I don't care what your position is on those two issues, you are not going to win an election if voters think that those two issues are your top issues rather than their ability to get a good wage and good benefits, get a house, and live the American dream.
And I think we have to, in this moment—
reinforce what is our actual priority as a party, which is making sure that everyone can pursue the American dream, which has become increasingly unaffordable and inaccessible, that everyone should be able to get the healthcare they need, be able to buy a home, be able to send their child to childcare without breaking the bank if they can even get a spot.
That needs to be our focus.
And I think when we have these sort of purity politics approach,
to LGBTQ issues or abortion, what we communicate, even if we're not talking about those issues, is we communicate those are threshold issues and therefore the voter reads that as those are priority issues.
And the only way to convince the voter that those are not our priority issues, that that's not what we're spending our capital and time on, but rather giving them healthcare and housing,
is to make it abundantly clear to people that our tent can include diversity of thought on those issues.
I think that there is an incentive from money and from social media, and those also go hand in hand sometimes with grassroots donations, that incentivize
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