A number of frustrated House Democrats who said their party had a “weak and undefined brand” announced on Tuesday that they were seeking to form a new group to dig out of their crisis, informally referred to as the New Economic Patriots.
The group is the brainchild of Representative Chris Deluzio, a 40-year-old second-term congressman from a competitive district in Pennsylvania, who criticized members of his own party as wimps in a speech on the House floor on Tuesday and called for Democrats to channel a “fighting spirit of economic populism” that he argued could lead them out of the political wilderness.
“Too many in our party have lost their way and it’s time to wake the heck up,” Mr. Deluzio said, later declaring: “The era of a spineless Democratic Party must end.”
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The group is the brainchild of Representative Chris Deluzio, a 40-year-old second-term congressman from a competitive district in Pennsylvania, who criticized members of his own party as wimps in a speech on the House floor on Tuesday and called for Democrats to channel a “fighting spirit of economic populism” that he argued could lead them out of the political wilderness.
“Too many in our party have lost their way and it’s time to wake the heck up,” Mr. Deluzio said, later declaring: “The era of a spineless Democratic Party must end.”
Declaring Their Party ‘Spineless,’ Democrats Try an Economic Populist Pitch
A group of House Democrats referred to as the New Economic Patriots introduced themselves on Capitol Hill promising to lead their party out of its funk. It wasn’t clear how they planned to do so.