Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D), who launched a bid to be the following chair of the Democratic Nationwide Committee (DNC), stated he thinks Democrats can transfer previous their brutal election losses by acknowledging the “fears of so many American families.”
O’Malley joined NewsNation’s Blake Burman for “The Hill” on Wednesday to debate his imaginative and prescient for the occasion after it suffered defeat within the election two weeks in the past.
“I believe that the way our party moves forward is to reconnect ourselves to, not only the hopes … and dreams, but to acknowledge the fears of so many American families,” he stated.
O’Malley continued, noting that “the most important place” within the nation is a household’s kitchen desk.
“When we talked about jobs, when we talk about opportunity, people hear us. They follow us,” he stated. “We need to remember that when we’re not talking about jobs and opportunity, we’re not fighting on our firmest ground, including issues like dignity in retirement, Social Security, prescription drugs.”
O’Malley served as Maryland’s governor from 2007 to 2015 and launched his bid to be the DNC chair on Monday. He most lately has served because the commissioner of the Social Safety Administration.
The previous Baltimore mayor additionally ran for the Democratic Get together’s presidential nomination in 2016 after he led the Democratic Governors Affiliation.
As the occasion grapples with the way it ought to transfer ahead after the election and the place its message acquired so misplaced with voters, O’Malley argued the main target needs to be on the Democrats who did win, significantly these in border states and in locations the place Democrats misplaced to Republicans this cycle.
“I don’t think we have to give up being a beacon of hope. I don’t think we have to intern children in internment camps behind barbed wire, but we do have to be a party of law and order and security,” he stated.
“We have to find a way to do both,” O’Malley stated.
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