‘Where the hell are the Democrats?‘: Civil war within the party hampers opposition to Trump

House Democrats gather in Leesburg , Virginia , to discuss key issues facing the party.

The first two days of the conference went according to plan, but Chuck Schumer's decision to delay a government shutdown was a setback.

The Democratic leader in the Senate stunned everyone on Thursday by announcing he had secured the seven votes needed to avoid a shutdown.

The Democratic brand, as defined by Republicans , is the problem, said Jennifer McClellan , the first Black woman elected to Congress from Virginia .

They agreed to target the man driving the cuts: Musk , the world’s richest man.

Republicans succeeded in making undecided voters see their opponents as more concerned with woke agenda issues than with “real” problems.

Carville , a pragmatist, finds strategies for confronting the new administration anywhere except within his own party.

This was again demonstrated in Leesburg , where the succession of press conferences by House caucuses was reminiscent of that famous sequence in Life of Brian .

Nothing could compare to the spectacle sparked after 10 Democratic senators supported the Republican funding bill.