‘Really Depressing’: Former Top Dem Operative Sounds Alarm On Dire State Of Her Party

Veteran Democratic strategist Patti Solis Doyle said on Friday that her party is in dire straits, lacking leadership, a message and an agenda.

Republicans won the presidency, maintained control of the House and regained control of the Senate during the 2024 election. Solis Doyle, on the “Next Up with Mark Halperin” podcast, said it’s typical for the losing party to face backlash and argued Democrats are in an especially weak position as they lack a “real leader” due to former President Joe Biden’s political irrelevance.

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“I have never been happier not to be actually in it — in the middle of politics — than I am right now, because it sounds really depressing, what’s going on at the party,” Solis Doyle said. “I mean, overall, when you lose, the party that loses gets, as you know, as I know personally, attacked and criticized. And ‘you’re the stupidest people who have ever walked the planet,’ and ‘how could you have missed that?’ And that’s what’s happening with the Democrats right now. They’re getting attacked from all sides.”

“The other problem that they have is that there’s no real leader. If your party holds the White House, the leader of the party is the president. If your party doesn’t hold the White House, the leader of the party is the last president of that party,” she continued. “So right now, for