'A wave can hide a lot of weaknesses': Dems question if they'll learn anything

Democrats are poised for a good night next Tuesday.

That doesn’t mean they’ve figured out how to win.

More than a dozen lawmakers, campaign operatives, strategists and pollsters warned in interviews that national Democrats risk drawing the wrong conclusions if they take back control of at least one chamber of Congress next week.

Those figures from across the party worry that the midterms, which have become a referendum on President Donald Trump, have done little to improve the Democratic Party’s brand.

They caution that a favorable political environment has papered over persistent problems for a party still grappling with why it lost the 2024 presidential election.

And they admit they are still sharply divided over what its message should be heading into 2028.

“Don't confuse them losing with us winning,” said Morgan Jackson, the senior adviser to Democrat Roy Cooper’s Senate campaign in North Carolina.

Cooper has consistently led in the polls by a wide margin in a state Trump won three times.

“This is not an affirmation of the Democratic Party in any which way,” said one veteran Democratic pollster working on Senate campaigns, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly.

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