On Monday, the Democratic National Committee announced it has hired the social media staffers who ran the @KamalaHQ account during Vice President Kamala Harris’ failed presidential campaign.
It was revealed that the social team will first focus on building a new @FactPostNews brand for the Democratic Party across X, Threads and Bluesky, with plans to expand to Facebook, Instagram, TikTok.
Likely nervous about Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement to end the bias of third party fact-checking, the DNC account will be tasked with countering what it determines as “misinformation” from President-elect Trump’s administration in real time.
“The Republican disinformation machine is powerful, but we believe a stronger weapon is giving people the facts about how Trump and his administration are screwing over the American people,” DNC chief mobilization officer Shelby Cole told Axios.
According to Axios, the team’s first set of marching orders will be to harass the confirmation process for Trump’s cabinet nominees, namely by highlighting their personal wealth; an internal memo calls the nominees “unfit billionaire picks.”
Fox News notes how Democratic leaders such as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., are doing some soul searching. Schumer appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” where he was asked about Democratic strategist James Carville’s assertion that the reason Democrats lost was because of “the economy, stupid.”
“I told my caucus, and I’ll say it here, too… certainly it was a loss, but it’s also a challenge,” Schumer said of the election. “We did some things wrong and we have to look in the mirror and see what we did wrong.”
“What we’re going to do is spend time talking to working families, showing them how much we care for them,” Schumer added. “And not just talk about legislation, but talk about the conditions that have made so many working families worried about their futures.”