As they gathered in northern Virginia on Wednesday for their annual policy retreat, House Democrats rallied like they were on the brink of victory.
“House Democrats are on the verge of a takeover. The break’s over for these MAGA extremists,” Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said at the leadership press conference kicking off the retreat. “It’s over because people know that Donald Trump and House Republicans have failed the American people.”
Jeffries and his Democratic colleagues have toiled this Congress as House Republicans hold a razor-thin majority. They see a path back to power by focusing on affordability and the economy in this year’s midterm elections, pointing to topics they say Trump has largely neglected.
Much of the three-day policy retreat is focused on cost-of-living issues. Guests include labor union leaders, representatives from the Black Economic Alliance and the National Low Income Housing Coalition, and Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, a former member of the House who delivered the Democratic rebuttal to Trump’s Tuesday night State of the Union.
Democrats will use the time together away from the Capitol to hone their messages to voters and to coalesce around what they think are the themes that will resonate with ordinary Americans.
