Marc Elias Praises the ‘Shift in Mindset’ that Dems Are ‘Going to Use Every Lawful Tool’ to Oppose Trump

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ELIAS: "I think that Leader Jeffries got this entirely right. And I think that that shift in mindset that we are going to do everything we can, we are going to use every lawful tool available, you know, I mean, look, you and I, Nicolle, go way back in this. And, you know, I’ve tried to be diplomatic over the years, and you have you have pressed me at times, you know, there have been times where my approach of 'use every tool' available has not been to the taste of every Democratic leader and every everyone on the left-of-center position. I think there were people who thought that it was more important to preserve norms than it was to use tools. And I’m glad that that’s no longer the case. I mean, Hakeem Jeffries has made it clear, Gavin Newsom made it clear, you know, Abigail Spanberger made it clear, the legislative leaders made it clear, like, that Democrats are in this to fight with every tool available. And that is, I think, an enormous lesson, an enormous lesson from what we saw in Hungary. It’s an enormous lesson from what we have seen with the victories we’ve had so far. And we need to stay in that mindset. We cannot become captive to a bunch of antiquated norms that Republicans hold up and say, 'You know, but you’re violating these.'”