I think it will hurt the Democrats if it is perceived that they are simply a party of retreat; they simply want to cut and run.
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Gergen discusses the implications of Joe Lieberman's defeat to Ned Lamont and its impact on the Democratic Party's image regarding military strategy.
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Yes, absolutely, Anderson. And in fact, Democrats on the House side are starting on this and of course, Nancy Pelosi is pushing it within the confines of the badly run negotiations.
Fifty million Americans or more out there believe that he is coming to office by fraud. It seems to me the Democratic Party has a strong interest in pushing back on that theory.
With these rallies, we are staggering from one obscenity to the next, and it is very clear that the rally haven't helped him very much politically. His numbers have been going down since all this nonsense started.
I think the President isn't in some degree of three fall and it is people are looking four other strategies he got out of this.





