How Democratic governors are standing up to Trump

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Source: Scripps News

Posted 4:26 PM, Feb 28, 2025 and last updated 4:27 PM, Feb 28, 2025


With Democrats out of power in the House, Senate and the Oval Office, it has fallen on Democratic governors to be one of the main checks on President Donald Trump. Ofirah Yheskel, a strategist with the Democratic Governors Association, explained how the party's state leaders are responding to Trump.

"Where there's room to work with this administration, they're going to find that common ground," she told Scripps News. "When they see areas that are potential for harm, they're certainly going to stand up and raise their voices."

The midterm elections are still nearly two years away. If Democrats want to be more successful than they were in 2024, a messaging change may be necessary.

Yheskel says governors will use Trump's record against him. "Republicans said that the first thing they were going to do was lower costs for people and getting rid of a critical program like Medicaid to fund tax cuts for billionaires like Elon Musk are in contradiction to that," she said. "And so I think it absolutely animating."

Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/how-democratic-governors-are-standing-up-to-trump

[usonian]

1. Starts yesterday.

[mainer]

2. Blue states should start healthcare exchanges

The blue states combined are a powerful economic force. Imagine a Blue State healthcare plan, a Blue State retirement plan, a Blue State emergency management plan. Leave the red states to fend on their own.

What we're headed for is, quite simply, a secession from MAGA land.

[rickford66]

3. It might be time to split into a Red country a Blue country.

India split apart albeit accompanied by violence. Give the MAGA's their Red country and it will end up like Somalia and the Blue country would resemble Denmark or Sweden. I don't look forward to the Civil War MAGA's talk about endlessly, but there may be no choice.