What are the Democrats going to do next?
It’s perhaps one of the most pressing questions asked during past few months amid Donald Trump’s return to presidential power. Democrats in Congress, and Democrats across the country, are arguably at a crossroads (and perhaps at a Container Store, but that’s a separate story). It’s that’s forced the party to confront its own messaging in the mirror and one that Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar may have an answer to.
“I can’t spend my time looking backwards,” Klobuchar explained during the most recent episode of The Daily Beast Podcast, when asked to address lessons learned from the party’s pitfalls in the 2024 election race—and potential paths forward. She doesn’t expect her peers to do so either.
“We’re not going to go back through all of that,,” she continued, “We do not spend time looking in the rear view mirror.”
With that said, Klobuchar acknowledged that the party’s social media shortcomings—a proxy for campaigning more broadly—were a huge issue in an election year, and mistake that should not be repeated.
“We got beat out on, let’s face it, on social media,” Klobuchar explained. “Now it’s not easy when Elon Musk controls the algorithms... we know that. But that’s not an excuse.”
“We are going to get our content out there in a big way, and one of the ways we get out there is by going to podcasts, by getting the message out in different ways about what we’re doing,” she continued.
“Right now, we are strongly making the case (that) we’re in it, that chaos and corruption are up, these these guys are doing things to help their billionaire friends, and they are engaged in a constitutional power grab,” Klobuchar concluded, already fulfilling on one of her paths forward—getting on a podcast.
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