Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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“People wanted the Democrats to fight back.”

Political commentator Hasan Piker tells Vox’s Astead Herndon that moderate Democrats’ only strategy is to paint the progressive left as unelectable during primaries, and then position themselves as better options than Republicans during the general election.

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