DNC Chair Tom Perez On Democrats’ Georgia Runoff Strategy And Defeating Trumpism

Tom Perez, Democratic National Committee chairman, speaks on Feb. 29 in Charlotte, N.C. Democrats are arguing over the future of the party after losses in the House.

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Despite Joe Biden’s victory, congressional Democrats are upset.

Bolstered by President Trump’s unpopularity and the pandemic, polls had showed Democrats possibly taking control of the Senate, expanding their majority in the House of Representatives and Biden winning convincingly in several swing states.

But Democrats didn’t gain a majority in the Senate. They lost a handful of seats in the House. And though Biden won the popular vote, it was a close contest in several battleground states.