Washington Examiner senior writer Joe Concha recommended that the Democratic Party “start rejecting the big money they’ve fallen in love with” and return to the roots of what the party once stood for.
Concha agreed with the recent comments by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) made during a meeting at the National Press Club on Monday. Warren suggested that “a Democratic Party that worries more about offending big donors than delivering for working people is a party doomed to fail.”
“Elizabeth Warren is right in the sense that during the [2024] election, there were more billionaire donors donating to [Democratic candidate] Kamala Harris and that campaign than the [Republican candidate Donald] Trump campaign. Democrats just ain’t your daddy’s donkeys anymore,” Concha said on Fox Business’s Varney & Co. Tuesday. “It used to be a party for the working man and woman, champions of the middle class and little guy, but now they are the party of elites, to Elizabeth Warren’s point. They routinely hold fundraisers in the richest zip codes, whether that’s Beverly Hills or Martha’s Vineyard.”
“They have to get back to their roots, start rejecting the big money they’ve fallen in love with if they want to regain power again,” Concha added. “If Democrats want to get back to power again, start speaking to people in the middle because there’s more independents in this country than any other party right now.”
This was in reference to Gallup’s most recent survey of U.S. adults, which found that 45% identify as independents. The findings marked a record high for independent respondents.
The Harris campaign did not win a single swing state in 2024 despite a war chest of over $1.5 billion. Harris outperformed her predecessor, former President Joe Biden, in only 58 counties nationwide. In her own home state of California, 10 counties that voted for the Democratic ticket in 2020 flipped to vote for the Republican ticket in 2024.
Meanwhile, as the Democratic Party is gearing up for the 2026 midterm elections, the Democratic National Committee is still paying off debt from Harris’s campaign. As of last October, almost a year after the election, the DNC paid the Harris campaign more than $20 million.
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Many Democratic lawmakers have opted to retire rather than run for reelection in 2026. So far, five Democratic senators and 21 Democratic representatives have announced that they will not seek another term.
At the same time, six Republican senators and 27 Republican representatives are expected to retire by the 2026 midterm elections.