Democrats desperate for turning the page while they meet for the summer meeting

Democrats are in a difficult section. Their collection of funds and registration of voters lags the Republicans. And surveys show that American voters find the generally unfavorable party.

But at the summer meeting of this week’s National Democratic Committee in Minneapolis, the members are desperate to turn a page, throw a reputation without rudder and define their platform more clearly while seeking to deliver victories in the races of the next governors and the periods in the middle of the period next year.

In fact, at least half a dozen members who talked to ABC News say they are eager to start fighting more aggressively against President Donald Trump and feel that some of the problems in which the party is found is due to composite factors, instead of the direct failure of Ken Martin, who was chosen in early February.

One of the ways in which the Democrats believe that they can recover balance is to rely on the recent outrage around republican efforts to pursue the redistribution of districts in the mid -decade and take out a page from the book book by the governor of California Gavin Newsom to give Trump a sample of his own rhetoric. Many members also believe they can resonate with voters as they advance against the impacts that the expenses and the Trump policy bill have about medical care and costs.

“We all know that this will be a battle uphill. We all know that there are huge challenges ahead, but we also know that the American people are not happy with the way things are resulting, and you see it in the surveys,” said Maria Cardona, a Washington member, DC, who brushed the anxieties about the Democrats in the disorder as “B ——-. “.” “.” “.” “.” “.” “.” “.” “

“All this internal B —— t is exactly that, it is B —— T,” Cardona said.

This week’s meeting is the first major meeting of Martin’s mandate, and an early fire test of his popularity and confidence in his leadership, since his first months have plunged into growth pains.

The DNC reported that it was only $ 14 million in cash at the end of July, much less than the Republican National Committee, which reported having $ 84.3 million in cash. The DNC also raised funds less than the RNC in July.

The news is better for the official arm of the United States Chamber campaign. The campaign committee of the Democratic Congress reported having $ 40.4 million in cash at the end of July, while its Republican counterpart, the National Committee of the Republican Congress, reported that it had $ 37.6 million in cash. The DCCC also exceeded the NRCC in the collection of funds in July.

Martin has faced greater scrutiny and criticism for the internal struggles that surround the activist of General Z David Hogg, who renounced his role as vice president after promising to support the primary challenges of the titular Democrats that he saw as complacent. The president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, also moved away from the DNC in June, writing in his renunciation letter he is “out of the way” with the new leadership of the party. Weingarten supported Martin’s most prominent president, Ben Wikler, the former president of the Wisconsin Democratic Party.

When ABC News asked him about the registration of democratic voters lagging like reported by him The New York Times last week, Martin said that the party has “work to do, sure”, and pointed out the new organization summer project of the Committee, a voluntary training initiative and registration of voters that establishes to train the Democrats to involve, and ideally convert voters, in non -political spaces in battlefield areas and online as proof of concept.

“We have to register the voters again, that is what the DNC has already started this year with our summer organization program. Now we are doing that with our state matches,” Martin said during an event at the Minnesota State Fair.

Shasti Conrad, a DNC member of the state of Washington, said that the pain for electoral loss has impregnated several conversations with other members, but has felt a recent change of energy, particularly after the Democrats of the Texas House of Representatives denied a quorum to delay the passage of the new maps of the Congress district, which now expects the firm of the Governor of Texas Greg Abbot.

“When you lose a choice as we did last year, you will feel the anger of people, their sadness, their despair, all that, and that is a lot, it has been what has been reverberating in every conversation I have had,” said Conrad. “I think we are all trying to advance this.”

Conrad continued: “We are starting to have a solid base, and that is my hope with this meeting, we can get out of here feeling ‘Ok, we are established.'”

Conrad finds part of the reduction of hand on the collection of funds and the registration of voters “slightly exaggerated” and feels that the organization is in a solid place and has space to grow.

That does not mean that internal concerns have evaporated, but members feel that concern is finally resulting in a consensus.

“This is the Crows that return home for Roost. We have abandoned the registration of partisan voters for a long time and does not surprise that we are not losing elections, but we are also losing voters,” said the progressive member of the DNC Michael Kapp of California. Kapp says he is “so happy” that Martin, in his opinion, focuses on correcting the error.

Kapp said he believes that it is a “new day in the DNC” and that many members are frustrated with the main national Democratic bras, such as the leader of the Senate minority Chuck Schumer and the minority leader of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries, for not doing enough. He also suggested that some members are galvanized to be a more active resistance.

“I see anger. I see the will to get up and defend the communities that are being affected by this administration. I see the frustration that we cannot move quickly enough, and I know it is a frustration that the president himself feels, but he is working as crazy,” Kapp.

“Several members came worried about the direction of the party, but the approach to the unit and the messages has been well received,” said Northern Dakota Jamie Selzler. Selzler added that although he expects conversations about fundraising figures to continue appearing, “there is a feeling that facing republican overreach in the coming years and winning in Virginia and New Jersey this year will be an important factor to prove that we can fight.”

Andre Treiber, member of Texas DNC and president of the Youth Council, feels that the committee is reaching the end of a “reconstruction phase.”

“This will check the final cement,” Trieber said. “The Democratic Party definitely has a brand problem, and I think that is what many people here care about reparation.”

For John Verdejo, a North Carolina DNC member, the next step for the party is to keep things simple, focus on central issues such as affordability, for example, and stop feeling sorry for yourself.

“We need to clarify our message,” said Verdejo, who emphasized that the party should maintain simple things: concentrate on central issues such as affordability, for example.

Verdejo understands why some party members may be licking their wounds after the loss, but believes that the complaint should wrap as the committee reaches a critical transition point. Internally, there is a desire for more combatants, said Verdejo, which is reflected in Martin, with whom he and other Democrats with whom ABC spoke are widely loved despite the first challenges of his mandate.

“We need, we need to think differently, strategically, dirty, even take off your gloves. It doesn’t matter the surveys, no matter what statistics say. It doesn’t matter what numbers say … People want to see that fire in us. Give them. This is life or death here,” Verdejo added.

Oren Oppenheim of ABC contributed to this report.