It\u2019s about \u2018kitchen-table populism\u2019: focusing on Americans\u2019 day-to-day economic struggles<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s Democratic primaries look and sound a lot more populist than usual. Brian Poindexter<\/a>, a union iron worker running on a \u201cworkers first\u201d message, won a House primary outside Cleveland. Sherrod Brown<\/a> is mounting a Senate comeback in Ohio on the same \u201crigged system\u201d message that has allowed him to outshine other Democrats in Ohio. Troy Jackson<\/a>, a fifth-generation logger who built his career fighting corporate landowners, is the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine. And Josh Turek<\/a>, a self-described \u201cprairie populist\u201d, is on the Senate ballot in Iowa.<\/p>\n In fact, according to research we\u2019ve conducted through the Center for Working-Class Politics (CWCP), more than 70% of 2026 Democratic candidates now rely on populist rhetoric in their campaigns, laying the blame for our broken system on rich elites of one kind or another.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s about \u2018kitchen-table populism\u2019: focusing on Americans\u2019 day-to-day economic struggles This year\u2019s Democratic primaries look and sound a lot more populist than usual. Brian Poindexter, a union iron worker running on a \u201cworkers first\u201d message, won a House primary outside Cleveland. Sherrod Brown is mounting a Senate comeback in Ohio on the same \u201crigged system\u201d … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}