Democrats’ victories over 'draconian' laws offers 'roadmap' for 2024: ex-HUD secretary
Following Kentucky Democratic Governor Andy Beshear's victory over the state's ex-Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron Monday night, MSNBC's Alex Wagner spoke with former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro about what the win means for Democrats ahead of 2024.
"This is the state of Kentucky that [former President] Donald Trump won by, I believe, 20 points," Wagner noted. "And a Democrat who survived to be a two term governor here, remarkable story for these times. How do you look at the events this evening?" she asked.
"There is no other way to interpret this tonight other than a great night for Democrats," Castro replied. "It is also, Alex, as you know, a soothing warm shot of Kentucky bourbon to ease all of the anxiety that national Democrats have been feeling for the last couple of days since that New York times poll came out and other recent polling, the nervousness about the 2024 cycle. All of the caveats still apply. We're still a year away from 2024."
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He continued, "These were state elections. There wasn't a single congressional representative, senator — of course President Biden was not on the ballot — but this does give Democrats some important lessons, and Governor Beshear alluded to that right there. You have to be for something and you have to go on offense. He did that on the issue of protecting the right to choose. He did that in pushing back against the culture war issues, specifically the attack on trans kids. We saw how powerful the issue of reproductive freedom was in Ohio tonight, and also in Virginia. It looks like Democrats have at least retained the state senate there and they will be able to block Governor Youngkin from draconian abortion legislation. So there are some lessons here, and Democrats should learn them. It also means for Joe Biden that this is a roadmap going forward. It's good that the campaign needs to make some adjustments and needs to address a weakness, not only the polls the other day, but many polls have shown poor Democratic constituencies. This is the reset, I think, in starting off point for that."
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