Declare their “Singingless” party, the Democrats try an economic populist tone

A number of frustrated house democrats who said that their party had a “weak and indefinite brand” announced Tuesday that they were trying to form a new group to dig from their crisis, indicated informally as new economic patriots.

The group is an idea of ​​the representative Chris Deluzio, a member of the second mandate congress of a competitive district in Pennsylvania, who criticized the members of his party as a Wimps in a speech on the floor of the Chamber on Tuesday and asked the Democrats to channel a “combat spirit of economic populism” that he could fight them out of the political desert.

“Too many in our party have lost their way and it is time to wake up the devil,” said Deluzio, later declaring: “The era of a Democratic Party without Spin must end”.

The answer, he said, was that the party concentrated on the appeal to workers on economic issues, but it was not immediately clear how his plan was different from what many in the part have already supported. However, the effort of Mr. Deluzio is the last sign that the Democrats, relegated to the minority in Washington and desperate to find a more coherent message after their devastating 2024 losses, are still bogged down in a politically intense debate on how to go on.

Deluzio highlighted his status as a young legislator who overperformed the former vice -president Kamala Harris in the 2024 elections in a critical district in a key state of the battlefield as he does the reason why he is the right person to help lead his party outside his funk.

In an interview, Mr. Deluzio said that the “progressive” and “moderate” labels no longer worked since his entire party in Gangelli had to be renovated around an economic populist message that said he had been co -opted by law.

“I’m not interested in a Wimpy Democratic Party,” said Deluzio. “The party for years has put too many actions to avoid fighting, avoiding to appoint large business bad guys.” It is time for the Democrats to return to their roots of the working class, he said.

The new group includes a disparate group of Democrats, including the representative Prafi Jayapal of Washington, former president of Progressive Caucus, and the representative Pat Ryan, a moderate of New York from a Swing district. The group that spoke to the chamber plan in particular did not yet include any democrat that won the districts of Trump in 2024, or any member that the committee for the democratic congress campaign identified as members “on the front line” which are considered more vulnerable.

“What people ask for is to transform the party into a more populist direction,” said the representative Greg Casar, Democrat of Texas and the president of the progressive Caucus, who is also a member of the new group. “Populist means that we are for workers throughout the spectrum, even if I disagree with us. The way we bring the conservatives is that we are economic populists who are willing to be on their side.”

Mr. Casar, who made his debut appearance on Fox News during the weekend in an attempt to reach the conservative inclusion voters, argued that the Democrats could not be the party that represented vulnerable people until they were seen as the party for all workers.

The new economic patriots met every two weeks to eliminate a new platform and some circulated among their colleagues a five -page declaration of mission that tries to face what they see as a crisis in the party.

“Some of us believe that we must focus on the economy,” said representative Ro Khanna, California Democratic, who is a member. “We have to focus on issues that affect the pocket books of people and democrats have not done so effectively for many years”.

Khanna added: “Our message in 2024 did not recognize how anger there was with the status quo. We did not recognize that the offshoring of the works was taking place, we did not recognize the pain that people were still feeling and our message was not quite transformative”.

Deluzio said that the Democrats had a messaging and politics problem to be solved.

“The voters do not think that the Democrats put the reduction costs first and this group,” he said. “It’s not just putting the economy in first place; it’s clear why you’re torn. We are very clear about who the bad guys are.”

But the Democrats for months spoke of Elon Musk, a billionaire ally of President Trump, who is leading an aggressive campaign of reduced government, like the main bad guy of the young administration.

On Tuesday while the group made its debut holding a series of speeches on the room floor, the representative Rosa Delauro, Democratic of the Connecticut, has made comments that did not play different from dozens of others that she and other democrats have given in the last few weeks of tracks against the policies of Mr. Trump.

Mr. Deluzio brought with him a poster table that read, simply and not specifically, “Anti Corruption, Pro American Dream”.

Some of their colleagues were skeptical about what, exactly, the group was trying to reach. The representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, Democratic of Washington, has been for years claiming that his party is not in tune with the needs of the voters of the working class. Mrs. Gluesenkamp Perez was invited to participate in the meetings of the new group and her performance on the home floor, but refused to speak on Tuesday, according to a person who is familiar with her thought.

Deluzio said that the action of Tuesday’s floor was simply a “opening saves” and that the group would have presented a clear platform to revive the Democratic Party at a time when the voters are desperate to show leaders to show an effective way to reject the Trump administration.

During the weekend, the progressive star of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and the representative Alexandria OCasio-Cortez in New York attracted tens of thousands of supporters on their “Fight Oligarchy” tour, focusing on the needs of workers.

Deluzio and his colleagues said that theirs is the right message for the Democrats and that the voters were prepared for a larger renewal of the party. (Neither Mr. Sanders nor Mrs. Ocasio-Cortez are part of her group.)

“Too much Americans felt that the Democrats had become the elite party and stopped meeting people where they are,” said Ryan on the floor of the house. “This moment is not ideological. These are those who fight for the people and those who fight for the elites.”