Democrats need new strategy and its not Trump!

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The head of the Democrats' House campaign arm is doubling down on the party's strategy to focus on former President Donald Trump — even though the tactic bombed in the Virginia gubernatorial election race. In an interview with The New York Times, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y., chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, dismissed the idea the party needed to readjust its focus on Trump for 2022 midterm elections. "The results in Virginia and elsewhere ought to be a wake-up call that we're not getting the job done on messaging. It starts with the president," Maloney said. "The No. 1 thing is to grow the economy and end the pandemic. But close behind that is telling people what you've done. Biden waged a careful, disciplined campaign, built around a simple message: He would end the pandemic, rebuild the economy and restore normalcy. After the chaos of the Trump years, that was enough. Governing has been more difficult. The pandemic, fueled by the Delta variant of the coronavirus, didn’t end. The economy’s recovery has come with worrisome inflation, shortages and supply chain problems. In public opinion polls, a large majority of Americans say they think the country is heading in the wrong direction. The handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal was his biggest botched plan. He still blames Trump for that and has never taken responsibility. Now with his unpopular Covid mandates we are experiencing a shortage of first responders. States are fighting back and rightly so. Our southern border crisis has only gotten worse with his open border policy. The floodgates are open and illegal migrants swarm the border. "I think it's a fair criticism to say we haven't done enough of that, and I think the White House needs to do more. I don't think the president has been served well in this regard. It needs to happen right away."