Democrats don’t just lack a message — they also lack a messenger.

While the focus is on the former, the latter is forgotten, as if somehow solving their message problem will automatically create the messenger to deliver it. In fact, the opposite is occurring; Democrats’ message problems are killing off their potential messengers.

Democrats’ message problems are much discussed… for good reason. They killed not one, but two Democratic 2024 presidential campaigns.

First, refusing to admit their message problems, Democrats turned on the messenger — and that turned out to be former President Joe Biden. But installing in Kamala Harris in his place didn’t change their messaging problems; instead, it confirmed them.

Harris was Biden’s polar opposite in every way except one — message. But that single continuity yielded the same comprehensive failure Biden had been facing.

Because November made it inescapable, there’s been an unrelenting focus on the Democrats’ message. Coming from opposite perspectives, James Carville and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) have made the same point: Democrats’ message needs fixing. Countless others have added their voices.

Lost in this microscopic focus on message is the fact that Democrats also have no messengers. Biden, Harris and Walz were all swept from the national stage by Trump’s tsunami. Bernie Sanders is too old.

Nancy Pelosi is both too old and now discredited by Trump’s return.........

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