New York State Sen. James Skoufis (D) argues that the Democratic Party faces a trust issue with the American people due to a disconnect between its messaging and the lived experiences of everyday citizens. He believes the party needs to focus on addressing the concerns of voters and be more honest in its communication.
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” New York State Sen. James Skoufis , who is also running to be the chair of the Democratic National Committee, stated that the Democratic Party has an issue because the American people don’t trust Democrats and that this happened because “over the past four years, we were telling people the economy was doing well, when, in fact, when they went to the supermarket, they saw for themselves, it was not.
Skoufis said, “ithin the party, broadly speaking, we need a national Democratic Party that addresses this trust gap, this reputational deficit that I think we’ve developed, unfortunately, whereby, over the past four years, we were telling people the economy was doing well, when, in fact, when they went to the supermarket, they saw for themselves, it was not.”
He continued, “We’ve got to be speaking to the issues that they care about, not running away from them and pivoting and trying to convince them whatever is in our mind on our agenda.
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