6 party quiz3/26/2023 But I do think that, you know, there are some things that were out of control for our down-ballot statewide candidates. If enough Georgians had known about it, I do believe they would have rejected that type of extremism. For example, if you're looking at a - you know, a seat like lieutenant governor, the candidate on the Democratic side was running against a fake elector, but the money wasn't there to amplify the messaging that the lieutenant governor nominee on the Republican side was a fake elector. If you look at the way in which money is spent, though, most of the times, when we are looking at key races across the country and in the state of Georgia, it is very difficult for down-ballot candidates to fundraise. NGUYEN: So I actually think that Georgia, we had a really, really strong statewide down-ballot ticket. Is there any part of you that is concerned that the Democratic leadership isn't doing enough to support and develop and recruit future leaders like yourself? The current Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, is 71. Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the house - the current speaker of the house - is 82. I mean, President Biden is going to be 80 soon. MARTIN: Is this a matter of Democrats not feeling that they have adequate resources, or is there something deeper at work here? And this is one of those things that's kind of hard to talk about, but you cannot help but notice that the national leadership of the Democratic Party skews older. We often see the money ends up staying at the top of the ticket, and it doesn't really trickle down to the bottom of the ticket. But I think the lessons learned here in Georgia are we have to continue to focus on our ground game, and we have to also adequately fund some of these down-ballot races that are important to the state of Georgia as well. And so going up against that is obviously an uphill battle. We also had a larger challenge in Georgia, running against incumbents who were not seen as extremists to Georgia voters. And we still have to remember that in a battleground state like Georgia, the mechanism by which we used to win was really tapping into these voters who traditionally don't turn out for elections and having those face-to-face conversations with them. What we also saw in Georgia is our field apparatus was not to the level it was in the years of 20. We saw in the state of Georgia that we had high numbers for our early voting, but those numbers tapered down on Election Day. So specifically in the state of Georgia, something that I would like to see is us continue to focus on the field mobilization and continue turning out our base voters and nontraditional voters. So in your opinion, what do you think the Democrats did well, and what do you think they should have done better? I mean, but the other hand, Democrats didn't win decisive victories either. That didn't happen to the extreme level that it could have. MARTIN: As I think most people know by now, Democrats were able to prevent the so-called red wave that both history and analysts, you know, might have predicted, given just, you know, those are the historical patterns - that the party that holds the White House generally suffers losses in the midterms. Representative Bee Nguyen, thanks so much for sharing some of your insights with us.īEE NGUYEN: Thank you so much for having me on. Raffensperger prevailed, but we wanted to get Representative Nguyen's take on the way forward for Democrats in her state and elsewhere. That's an effort which was probably most visibly directed at Nguyen's opponent, the incumbent, Brad Raffensperger. This year, Representative Nguyen made a bid to become Georgia's next secretary of state, a once low-profile role that has become much more visible in the wake of efforts by former President Trump and other Republicans to pressure election officials to overturn unfavorable election results. That's a seat which was formerly held by the Democratic gubernatorial candidate and the voting rights activist Stacey Abrams. She made history as the first Asian American Democratic woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly, where she represented District 89. Now we're going to hear from Georgia Representative Bee Nguyen. Yesterday, we heard from former Reagan administration official Linda Chavez about the way forward for Republicans. All this weekend, as we have been following the results of the midterm elections, we've been getting different perspectives on what those results mean for the country's two major political parties going forward.
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