Former Obama staffers Jon Lovett and Jon Favreau called on Democrats to talk like normal people Wednesday and urged party members to stop talking as a press release.
“If we want to be a party that can win elections, we have to be a party that people want to attend. And you see a Trump rally and people are having a good time at that event. And Trump is mixing it up. And you talked about how we accept misinformation, what about a Democrat who holds two-hour press conferences, who goes everywhere, who can mix it up with everybody, Joe Rogan can keep it going, it looks like a good matchup,” Lovett said.
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough asked “Pod Save America” co-hosts Jon Lovett, Jon Favreau and Tommy Vietor about how the Democratic Party should be more appealing, complaining that Democrats are “weaker” and shouldn’t have been ” easy” for Republicans.
Favreau chimed in and said they shouldn’t speak as a “press release,” urging Democrats to write their own social media posts.
The hosts of “Pod Save America” join MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday, January 22, 2025. (Screenshot/MSNBC)
“Everybody’s writing their statements like they’re crossing the Delaware. They’re writing them like they’re writing their own drafts of the Federalist Papers,” Lovett said. – That’s enough, it doesn’t work, nobody listens.
The podcast host argued that while he believes they shouldn’t look back, the party still needs to admit where they went wrong.
“We lost so much credibility with people, and we didn’t get the ability to get through to people. And so, like, yeah, we’re frustrated and we’re upset,” Lovett said. “I think we need to be aware of the ways in which we are responsible for the inability to successfully communicate the threat posed by Donald Trump.”
Favreau said that Democrats need to have a normal conversation with voters and that the assumption that people will vote for Democrats because of their identity should not be an assumption.
The hosts of Pod Save America previously joined Stephen Colbert in June 2024. (Screenshot/CBS)
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“The assumption that people are going to vote for us based on their identity is a loser, and it’s always been a loser, and it shouldn’t be an assumption anymore. You have to advocate for people, and people without college degrees now vote more than if they’re black, Hispanics, whites, so the Democrats have to talk about it, don’t they the language of normal people. How do you talk to people in a bar, a restaurant, in your own life?” Favreau said.
Earlier in the debate, MSNBC co-host Mika Brzezinski, who argued that former President Biden could have won and should not have dropped out, asked the podcast’s hosts if Democrats should really focus on the “narrative” that Biden was too old.
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Vietor said Democrats need to be honest about s mistakes made by democrats.
“We all spent a lot of time, the Democratic Party that is, trying to tell voters that their eyes weren’t seeing what they were seeing, which was a man who was too old to run for re-election,” Vietor said, noting that was a mistake. .
Brzezinski responded with “Oh.”
