Bret Stephens Quotes

The best thing the Democrats can do is to get Hillary Clinton elected.

If you are a Democrat, and you get less than 90% of the black vote, you are going to likely lose your election.

The GOP can't even envision winning the White House if we lose a significant percentage of the Hispanic vote.

California is going to be quite good for the Democrats. But the rest of the country is a draw.

To defeat Donald Trump, the Democrats must run a stellar cast of all-stars in their primary.

Democrats didn't just lose the 2016 presidential election, they lost seats across the country at every level of government under Obama's tenure in the White House.

The Republicans have kind of painted themselves into a kind of a real demographic corner, if you will.

The black vote is always important, and the reason is it serves as a tremendous base for the Democratic Party. On the national level, Democrats traditionally receive at least 90 percent of the black vote.

It's almost a very rough rule of thumb: when Democrats are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around middle-class fears, Democrats win the election; when Republicans are able to successfully frame the meaning of an election season around cultural fears, Republicans win the election.

McCain needs Hillary to run because that's what keeps the Republican coalition together. She helps unite the Republican base.

In terms of the ability to go out and win - this is why you have campaigns. You go out, and you take your issues to voters, and you put them out there, and people respond, or they don't.

Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.

It's rare when a president wins the campaign without winning independents.

I reject the notion that a high turnout helps Senator Kerry. I think in Florida at least, it's going to help President Bush because we have gotten more registered voters than the Democrats, and our base is just fired up - thanks to your help and a lot of others.

I think an Edwards-Kerry ticket would be powerful.

Texas is not really a red state - it's just a non-voting state.

Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.

The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.

Middle class voters are the mega-prize in American politics.

We have got to defeat Donald Trump, and we have got to elect Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine.

Michigan is a state we should have won in 2016, and we didn't, and I want to understand why.

The weakness that our campaign and that I had is we weren't effective in taking my message primarily to minority voters.

Hillary Clinton's loss has exposed the lack of Democratic power in this country at all levels.

That's what Democrats do best: breed black votes.

As Democrats, when we try to determine who or what allowed Donald Trump to become president, we should look in the mirror.