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Rahm Emanuel: Democrats Have Lost Touch With Roosevelt, Johnson, and Truman

Rahm Emanuel: Democrats Have Lost Touch With Roosevelt, Johnson, and Truman
Rahm Emanuel, former mayor of Chicago, speaks at an event in Washington on Dec. 10, 2019. Al Drago/Reuters
Salena Zito
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SPRINGFIELD, Illinois—In casual conversations with Democrats in August from across the Midwest, I found that their biggest frustration with the national party is that its platform didn’t appeal to them. I was not surprised to see that same sentiment captured in a poll by The Wall Street Journal around the same time. It found Democrats’ popularity cratering, with a staggering 63 percent of voters holding an unfavorable view of the party.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.