‘We’re Going To Have A Bad Night’: Democrat Strategist Predicts Disastrous Midterms

Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen predicted disastrous results for her party — and she said that they only had themselves to blame after repeatedly failing to “listen to voters” in the weeks and months leading up to Tuesday’s midterm elections.

Rosen joined a panel discussion, moderated by host Dana Bash, on CNN’s “State of the Union” — and she predicted that Democrats were likely to have “a bad night” on Tuesday, largely because they had not tailored their midterm message to the issues that voters had said were most important — namely inflation and the economy.

Rosen began by explaining that she considered herself to be a “loyal Democrat” but she was definitely not impressed with the direction her party’s leadership had chosen in recent weeks.

“I’m a loyal Democrat, but I am not happy. I just think that we are — we did not listen to voters in this election and I think we are going to have a bad night,” Rosen began, noting that there wasn’t really enough time to reverse course ahead of Election Day and warning Democrats to learn from what she expected to be a tough election.