Dem Senator Warns It’s Time Her Party Fights Back As If Trump is Not ‘Survivable’ For U.S. Democracy

Dem Senator Warns It’s Time Her Party Fights Back As If Trump is Not ‘Survivable’ For U.S. Democracy


I want to build on your response to the first question and sharpen it a little bit and ask what you and/or your colleagues in the Congress intend to do to restore and enforce Congress’s constitutional war powers,” asked the moderator, PBS NewsHour’s Nick Schifrin. And therefore, if I see that—if I believe that he’s an existential threat to democracy—the tools that I want to bring to the fight are very different than some of my peers who are like, “Elissa, we’re in the Senate. So the answer to the question is: A, you decide that you’ve got a real threat on your hands, and then B, you open up the toolkit and coordination so that we actually act as a united front, as opposed to every elected Democrat and every group doing their own thing.

Author: Alex Griffing


Published at: 2025-09-06 20:18:55

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