Obama tells Dems to “harden”, candidates in the center who can really deliver

Former President Barack Obama had frank words for donors of the Democratic Party, telling them during a Friday fundraising to “harden” and “stop looking for a quick solution” after the Democratic Party locked himself beyond the power cycle of 2024.

“I think it will require a little less navel and a little less groans and to be in fetal positions. And that will force the Democrats to harden,” said Obama during fundraising, according to extracts obtained by CNN. “Don’t tell me you are a democrat, but you’re a little disappointed for the moment, so you don’t do anything. No, that’s exactly the moment you enter and do something.”

Obama is not the only one to urge his democratic colleagues to adopt a more aggressive approach after the momentum of the GOP in 2024. The former president expressed that his vision of becoming more aggressive and hardening means defending policies and candidates who are unpopular or who can give uncomfortable legislators, but ultimately having the best chance.

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Obama is not the only one to exhort his colleagues Democrats to adopt a more aggressive approach after the momentum of the GOP after 2024. The president of the National Democratic Committee, Ken Martin, the Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn., And many other high-level democrats have exhorted their colleagues to obtain more aggressive to counter GOP. (Getty Images; Fox News)

“Do not say that you deeply care about freedom of expression, then you are silent. No, you defend freedom of expression when it is difficult. When someone says something you don’t like, but you always say:” What do you know? This person has the right to speak. “… What is necessary now is courage,” added Obama in his remarks during fundraising, which attracted $ 2.5 million and was organized by the governor of New Jersey Phil Murphy and his wife, Tammy Murphy, at their home.

“Stop looking for the quick solution,” he added. “Stop looking for the Messiah. You have big candidates to run races right now. Support these candidates.”

The former president notably underlined the next elections of New Jersey and Virginia. Later this year, Virginia will face a great battle of governors between the Lieutenant-Governor of the governor of the GOP, the Lieutenant-Governor of governor Glenn Youngkin, WinSome Earle-Sears and the former long-standing representative of Virginie, Abigail Spanberger, D-VA.

In New Jersey, the Democratic representative Mikie Sherrill, who would have been present during Friday fundraising, arises for the headquarters to the open governor of his state against the candidate of GOP Jack Ciattarelli.

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Representative Mikie Sherrill spoke with journalists after having voted at the Hillside elementary school in Montclair, New Jersey, on Tuesday, June 10, 2025. (Deirdre Heavey / Fox News Digital)

The two states will also organize new elections in the State Chamber and a list of other local elections. In Virginia, there will also be a special election this year to replace the late Gerry Connolly, D-VA.

In the midst of his remarks, Obama described Spanberger and Sherrill as “powerful spokespersons for a pragmatic desire and common sense to help people and who both have remarkable service history”.

“Stop looking for the quick solution. Stop looking for the Messiah. You have big candidates during the race right now. Support these candidates.” – Former President Barack Obama

“The most important thing you can do right now is to help the team, our candidate to win,” he said. “And we have to start building our chests in the DNC.”

Obama has recognized the growing propensity of the party to appoint progressive and extreme left candidates, such as the recent choice of Zohran Mamdani against the former New York governor Andrew Cuomo in the race of the New York town hall, but argued that what they promoted and what the centrist democrats grow are not mutually exclusive.

Member of the New York House of Representatives, Zohran Mamdani, attended an event at the National Action Network House of Justice in Harlem, Manhattan, New York, United States on June 28, 2025. (Kyle Mazza / Anadolu)

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“There was, I bring together, an argument between the left of the party and the people who promote the agenda of the abundance of the quotation.

“I don’t care how much workers you like. They cannot afford a house because all the rules of your condition make construction prohibitive. And zoning prevents multifamily structures Because of Nimby“, He added, referring to the views” not in my court “by residents who oppose development in their neighborhoods.” I don’t want to know your ideology, because you can’t build anything. It doesn’t matter.”

Obama said what was asked for his colleagues leaders of the Democratic Party was “making efforts to get up” for what they believe well, even if it makes “a little uncomfortable”.

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