one of the vice chairs, pennsylvania state representative malcolm kenyatta, is here to talk about the future of the party. plus, congresswoman sara jacobs says americans will be the ones paying for trump's trade war and the real world impact of elon musk trying to dismantle the main u.s. agency for foreign aid. i'm ayman mohyeldin. let's do it. when donald trump entered office again last month, a gallup poll showed him at historically low approval ratings for a president being sworn in, with only 47% of americans approving of him, similar to the 45% after his first inauguration. now, for comparison, joe biden entered office with a 57% approval rating in this same poll because contrary to what trump and maga are saying, neither he nor his policies are popular. so how did he win the white house, and why are republicans in control of the house and senate, too? well, people dislike the democrats even more. in a recent wall street journal poll showed 60% of americans view the party unfavorably. in november, democrats lost ground with nearly every demographic group, including minorities, wo

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one of the vice chairs, pennsylvania state representative malcolm kenyatta, is here to talk about thes says americans will be the ones paying for trump's trade war and the real world impact of elon musk trying to dismantle the main u.s. agency for foreign aid. i'm ayman mohyeldin. let's do it.

and i think that my election here, along with the election of my good friend, vice chair malcolm kenyattaal that our party is listening. but we're not taking that for granted. we have to get to work. i've been on the phone constantly, basically talking to people about how we can get back to winning, talking to members in competitive districts and elsewhere about how we can get back to winning the house come 2026. >> is there one single consensus? because one of the complaints i've heard from democrats, from people within the party, has been too many messages, too many strategies, not enough cohesion. >> look, i think ultimately it's hard to have cohesion, even if you even if you do have cohesion, if people don't feel heard by you, if they don't feel respected by you, they're not going to listen to you. and i experienced this myself when i was in college, and i didn't want to go to college just to be around people who thought like me all the time. that's part of the reason why i joined the shooting club and the conversations that i've had there. what i realized more than anything was a lot

pa state representative malcolm kenyatta was also elected as a vice chair of the dnc.ould argue that the work begins. the biggest challenge from my perspective is that democrats don't have, you know, two, three weeks a month to, like, get up and running like the democratic national committee has to retool itself and make changes immediately to respond to the current environment, but also be proactive for the voters that they're trying to, you know, seek. >> their first test. is this november. you've got two races in new jersey and one really big one in. virginia for the governorship there. >> and how you. >> develop that messaging, that strategy, the how you engage the grassroots in the state. that will set up the modeling for what will happen next year. so the chairman now has to really. think strategically. and he's noted as a strategic thinker. but politico does make make some. interesting points. and i'd be curious your thoughts on. >> this. >> alicia as well, they say in selecting martin, democrats did little to answer some of the deepest questions the party faces

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