Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says his fellow Democrats are too focused on the Trump White House and is not on convincing middle-class voters they care about them.
"I think we don't talk about and fight for the middle class like we are," Emanuel said in a podcast for Politico. "We believe we're for them. But they don't — if they don't hear we’re for them — we've got a problem because we're not going to convince them that they're wrong."
"And I think there are certain things that we, as a party, wandered off from as it relates to being a party that fought for hard-working families," he continued, "as President Clinton used to say, that work hard, play by the rules, pay the bills — they need a voice."
More than just a "string of policies," Emanuel said, Democrats need to share with the middle class "a set of values that respect who they are — and their lives."
Democrats "can come off as a party disdainful of them as the bedrock of this great country."
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