“I’m not interested in anyone who is moving further away from the center,” said Cindy Bass, a Pennsylvania committee member from Philadelphia. “The center is where we have to be.”
They’re not going to change a thing unless people make them.
Find your local state delegate and personally tell them how you believe nominating a centrist will only going to guarantee another Republican victory. They are listed here: https://ballotpedia.org/Democratic_National_Committee
Bernie Sanders is working behind the scenes to get a progressive in there but he can’t do it alone.
Donald Trump’s numbers barely changed from 2020 to 2024. He won because Democrat numbers collapsed. So their answer is to give their own voters even less to be excited about?
Do you have a source for the numbers?
I was an insightful post over at https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/18340229 a little over a week ago. It was made before the final numbers were in, but if you look at Wisconsin and North Carolina for example, Harris did better in those battleground states in 2024 than Biden did in 2020 (when he won). And then orange voldemort somehow did even better than Harris there.
Turnout was lower overall, but the author of that post suggests it is because of low turnout or protest votes in the deep blue states.
Thanks to the stupid Electoral College, that didn’t matter. We can get 100% turnout in California and New York, and have every single vote there go blue, and still lose.
DNC leadership knows this. Without the center, they figure that there’s no chance in holding the blue wall. I’d love for them and myself to be proven wrong (though I suspect it may be too late for that, either way).