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Tuesday evening, when he enters the platform in the room of the house of the house, the president Donald Trump will have another major platform to relay its priorities for the second term. For Democrats, the time will present a new knowledge test if they will be able to effectively counter the programs of Trump’s prosecuting hours.
Democratic leadership has chosen a first mandate senator elected in a battlefield that Trump won in November in November to issue the party’s official response. A democratic senator whose name is often discussed for 2028 is one of those who jump for the address, predicting that it will be a “Magi Pep Rally”. And a protest movement organizing online identified on March 4 – the day of Trump’s speech – as its next day of action.
The variable tactics of the Democrats in Washington and across the country will be exhibited while Trump pronounces his address to a joint session of the congress six weeks in a second term during which he quickly moved to redo the federal government and implement his vision of foreign policy, sometimes disturbing the American allies.
While the Democrats rallied against Elon Musk and his Government Department of Effectiveness cuts, Washington legislators have fought to stop The president’s first actions or settled on a coherent approach to repel them. This comes in the midst of a debate within the Democratic Party on the best way to manage Trump’s second term and position the Democrats to succeed in mid -term from 2026 and 2028 presidential election – with certain party leaders are not enough.
Before Tuesday’s speech, Democratic leaders – from Capitol Hill to the National Democratic Committee – hope to present a united front. They want to focus on how Trump’s actions have a negative impact on people and not be made of promises he has made, including a commitment to reduce costs. Democrats are also impatient to warn that the Republicans could put Medicaid in danger In the next budget fight.
The Democratic leadership turns to the senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan to deliver official refutation, a sign of their desire to appeal to the voters of the working class after the Democrats lost power in the White House and to Capitol Hill in 2024. After the voters of Michigan divided their tickets, the sending of Trump to the White House and Slotkin revision of the revision.
The Democratic leader of the Hakeem Chamber Jeffries said that Slotkin would use his refutation to “communicate that Democrats are fighting to reduce the cost of living and protect Social Security and Medicaid while the Republicans reduce taxes for their billionaire and Elon Musk donors”.
The Democratic Representative Adriano Espailt of New York, which chairs the Hispanic Caucus of the Congress, should deliver the official response in the Spanish language.
The leaders of the Senate and the Chamber encouraged legislators to invite individuals who have been affected by Trump movements, including job cuts and financing gels, as guests, democratic aids said.
“We ask that the Democrats of the Chamber participating in the joint address bring a guest who was injured by the first actions of the Trump administration or who will be injured by the republican budget of the Chamber,” said the Chamber’s Policy and Communication Committee in the Congress offices in a memo obtained by CNN.
The DNC has also coordinated with the Democratic campaign committees and state officials across the country to send a message against Trump and the Republicans around the joint address, said a party official.
In an interview with CNN, the Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona, who was the only first -year Democratic senator in addition to Slotkin to win in a state that Trump carried in 2024, said Democrats had to eliminate distractions around Trump’s speech and focus on questions to the Americans on a daily basis.
“What they really care about is the fact that the price of eggs is so high. It is difficult to get a house. All these things that really lead to everyday Americans trying to do a little better, “said Gallego, who plans to take a disabled veteran and a federal worker who has recently been dismissed due to Trump Cutting on federal workforce Like his guest.
But some Democrats can decide to boycott discourse is the best approach. The Senator of Connecticut Chris Murphy, a leading voice in decline in Trump, jumps for the joint address and will participate in a counter-programming event with the progressive defense group Moveon.
“I think each democrat needs to decide. I think that the state of the union will be a farce. I think it will be a Maga Pep rally, “said Murphy on the” Union State “of CNN on Sunday. “We have to fight every day every day.”
“Many Democrats think you might be fighting every third day, you should book your power and jump bushes at the right time,” he added. “I just think we have to be on the offensive 24/7.”
Another possible competitor in 2028 who plans to play Trump back in Tuesday – former transport secretary Pete Buttigieg, who will appear on a live edition of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” after Trump’s speech. And several Democratic governors, including the JB Pritzker de l’Illinois and Gretchen Whitmer from Michigan, said their own “state of the state” in which the weeks preceded Trump’s speech.
The Families of Families of workers said that the Democrat representative lateefah Simon of California will deliver an answer on his behalf.
A large part of the democratic messaging efforts will take place on television and social media, but democratic legislators sitting in the Chamber of the Chamber will also decide how to manage Trump’s words on site.
While the Republicans sometimes chased former President Joe Biden during his Union State speeches, the former president of the Nancy Pelosi Chamber, who famous torn Trump’s speech during his last state of the Union urged Democrats to be cautious with the current president.
“Any demonstration of disagreement, whether visual or something else, just let it cook in your own juice. Do not be a grain for the mill to say that it was inappropriate, “said the California Democrat in an interview with the Washington Post.
Apart from Washington, a protest movement hopes to provide voters with a outlet to channel their frustration. The 50501 movement, which describes itself as a non -partisan effort, has chosen the date of Trump’s joint address at the Congress as its next rallying point.
Online organizers have encouraged The demonstrators to participate in “March 4 for democracy”, to “raise their voice on this important occasion, by amplifying concerns that have an impact on daily life,” said a source working with effort.
He came as visible signs of unit of voters with Trump, Musk and the GOP administration began to bubble in the pockets of the country. Voters have embarked on fiery exchanges with certain republican legislators in town halls when the house was in recess last month, echoing scenes that took place in 2017 during Trump’s first mandate.
“I think everything that makes more people actively do something in the real world and attracts more people in an oppositional movement against Musk and Trump is in good health,” said Ezra Levin, co -founder of the indivisible progressive organization. “Every day, there are new people who were on the sidelines, who have enough and are now trying to understand what they could do.”
Recent CNN Survey I have found a large democratic dissatisfaction with regard to the way in which the Democrats of the Congress have so far dealt with their response to Trump. Almost three -quarters (73%) of democrats and democratic self -employed interviewed said that the party caucus in the congress is too much to oppose Trump. Twenty-two percent said they were doing the right amount and 5% said they would do too much.
Potential tests on a deadline for closing the government on March 14 and the republican push for a Major budget goals To adopt Trump’s agenda could emerge for Democrats in the coming weeks.
A prominent democratic Super PAC is already planning to intensify its attacks on the political vision of the Trump administration. The majority of the PAC chamber, the main Super Pac Democratic, takes place new advertisements Warning of the Medicaid cuts and featuring images of technological billionaire Musk brandishing a chain saw which deploys in more than 20 districts of the congress next week.
Gallego plans to hold the town halls in rural regions of his state in the coming weeks to detail how Medicaid cuts “would affect them in a disproportionate manner”. The Senator of Arizona said that the Democrats had to ensure “that we take the fight not only in our normal democratic areas, but on our truly republican bastions”.
He added: “Everything we need to do is make sure to remind people that everything that the president does right now, what Elon Musk is doing now, does not improve you.”