Sen. Gallego, Democrats Have Harsh Words for Their Party at Pennsylvania Town Hall

LEVITTOWN, Pa.—As Democrats assess the future of their party after losing the 2024 election, there are harsh words to go around about their own performance. At a “People’s Town Hall” in the battleground area of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on May 10, featured speaker Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) offered much criticism of Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign and the party’s traditional strategies. “The problem is that we are too [expletive] safe all the time,” Gallego said in response to a question about party messaging. “We don’t necessarily go talk to Fox News, or we actually don’t go on podcasts, because maybe that podcaster … isn’t 100 percent aligned with our politics, or they said something stupid years ago, and therefore we can’t go on there, because then we’ll get canceled by our own people,” he said....