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Democrats scored key victories in Pennsylvania.

Gavin Newsom's effort to go upside-down has harmed his public standing. The upside of his venture is that provides, in hard numbers and immediate practical implications, a lesson for Democrats.

Democratic voters are even angrier than you think.

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The flailing and unpopular party elite needs to be replaced with fighting economic populists.

Filling in for services under attack

Reconnecting the Democratic Party to the working class is an electoral and a moral imperative, and it will be my mission for the rest of my life.

Latino voters shifted dramatically toward Trump in the last election. Reading, Pennsylvania offers a clue to how Democrats can claw them back. Both campaigns saw Reading as strategically critical and it happens to be nearly 70 percent Latino.

"I believe in fighting for vulnerable people, reproductive rights and climate action. But we won’t have the numbers in office to protect the vulnerable if we don’t fix Democrats’ loss of trust among a lot of working class people."

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