Jamie Raskin Describes Path Forward Under Trump | EUROtoday

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) provided a frank message concerning the path ahead for Democrats within the wake of their loss to President-elect Donald Trump.

The outstanding lawmaker shared his two cents after MSNBC’s Chris Hayes requested him on Wednesday what motion Democrats will take as Trump makes “very obvious noises and very obvious actual decisions designed to subvert the American rule of law.”

“Look, we lost an election by around 3 million votes,” Raskin stated. “Joe Biden had beaten Donald Trump four years before that by more than 7 million votes. So obviously, the country is closely divided.”

“So we’re going to alter some tactics and strategies and figure out how the right has captured a lot of the social media, and I think we have been outflanked there,” he stated.

He stated he stands by the “massive ground game” technique Democrats deployed for this yr’s election, however “there are clearly some changes that need to be made.”

He continued, “We’re not going to change our values. We’re not going to abandon American constitutional democracy because we lost an election by 1% or 1.5%. We’re not going to abandon the rule of law.”

“We’re going to be recruiting and mobilizing hundreds of thousands and millions of more people to get out there and be leaders in this fight,” he concluded. “What else can we do? This is not a game of volleyball or badminton where we’re going to quit the game or something. I mean, this is the fight of our lives that we’re in now.”

Raskin is vacating his function as rating member of the House Oversight Committee to run to steer Democrats on one other influential House committee, the judiciary. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is operating to interchange Raskin.

Republicans received full management of Washington within the November election, however they’ll maintain a really slim majority within the House.

Trump has already alarmed critics by selecting deeply controversial figures to fill his administration, comparable to conspiracy theorist Kash Patel, whom he picked to steer the FBI.

See his MSNBC interview under.