{"id":2257,"date":"2026-03-24T12:29:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2026-03-24T12:29:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:29:59","slug":"why-are-so-many-democratic-politicians-so-far-out-of-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=2257","title":{"rendered":"Why Are So Many Democratic Politicians So Far Out of Touch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>In January 2025, when the U.S. House took up legislation to bar trans women&#8217;s participation on women&#8217;s sports teams, all but two Democratic representatives \u2014 Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez \u2014 voted against the bill.<\/p>\n<p>When the Senate took up a similar proposal three days ago, every Democrat present voted against it.<\/p>\n<p>Why don&#8217;t more Democrats explicitly moderate their stands on transgender rights, immigration and other issues? Those who maintain far-out positions are well to the left of the electorate and its emblematic median voter. The trans issue clearly weakened Kamala Harris&#8217;s presidential campaign, leaving her open to devastating pro-Trump ads.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allsides.com\/news\/2026-03-24-0700\/politics-why-are-so-many-democratic-politicians-so-far-out-touch\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2025, when the U.S. House took up legislation to bar trans women&#8217;s participation on women&#8217;s sports teams, all but two Democratic representatives \u2014 Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez \u2014 voted against the bill. When the Senate took up a similar proposal three days ago, every Democrat present voted against it. Why don&#8217;t more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-political-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}