Promise to America in the News
The origins of horseshoe politics
Matt Yglesias, Slow Boring
At WelcomeFest earlier this week, I was pleased to moderate a panel with Representatives Adam Gray and Tom Suozzi — the only two House Democrats to have flipped Trump districts in 2024 — where they unveiled the Promise to America, which is a kind of moderate Democrat manifesto.
Centrist Democrats launch new pledge: ‘We are capitalist, not socialist’
Hannah Knowles, Washington Post
Two Democrats in Congress who flipped Republican-held seats in 2024 are launching a pledge for their party’s candidates they hope will act as a rallying cry for centrists, calling for a “politics of persuasion over purity” and declaring that “we are capitalist, not socialist.”