{"id":96883,"date":"2026-07-06T15:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/bednar-dems-have-no-leadership-or-message-but-they-do-have-energy-aoc-mamdani-real-power-brokers-in-democrat-party\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T15:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:42:06","slug":"bednar-dems-have-no-leadership-or-message-but-they-do-have-energy-aoc-mamdani-real-power-brokers-in-democrat-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/bednar-dems-have-no-leadership-or-message-but-they-do-have-energy-aoc-mamdani-real-power-brokers-in-democrat-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Bednar: Dems Have No Leadership or Message, But They Do Have Energy. AOC, Mamdani Real Power Brokers in Democrat Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Mark Bednar, a former communications staffer for Kevin McCarthy, commented on &#8220;FOX News Sunday&#8221; on this Washington Post opinion piece: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2026\/07\/01\/democratic-partys-socialist-moment-is-here-now-what\/\">Democrats Are Facing Their MAGA Moment. Good luck &#8230;&#8221;<\/a>  &#8220;Established Democrats are leery of openly attacking these socialist candidates. It&#8217;s hard to fight an invasion when the defending forces let them land on the beach. They&#8217;re trying to figure out where this fits in their tent,&#8221; Henry Olsen says in the Post.   Bednar commented: &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter if they&#8217;re going to figure out where it fits in their tent. They&#8217;re coming in the tent no matter what,&#8221; Bednar said. &#8220;We&#8217;re even seeing it this Fourth of July weekend. I mean, &#8216;Happy Fourth of July&#8217; is the new &#8216;Merry Christmas,&#8217; where you have DC liberals saying &#8216;Happy Holidays&#8217; instead.&#8221;  &#8220;We&#8217;ve seen this in the cultural expansion of the far left. This is where they are. You&#8217;ve seen even Hakeem Jeffries putting out tepid endorsement infographics after the primaries. He doesn&#8217;t know how to deal with this,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The fact that Kamala Harris is going around Schumer, around Hakeem, to talk to the real power brokers of the Democratic Party &#8212; Mamdani and AOC &#8212; that shows you where the real center of gravity is. They have no leadership and no message, but they do have energy.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/07\/06\/bednar_dems_have_no_leadership_or_message_but_they_do_have_energy_aoc_mamdani_real_power_brokers_in_democrat_party.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Bednar, a former communications staffer for Kevin McCarthy, commented on &#8220;FOX News Sunday&#8221; on this Washington Post opinion piece: Democrats Are Facing Their MAGA Moment. Good luck &#8230;&#8221; &#8220;Established Democrats are leery of openly attacking these socialist candidates. It&#8217;s hard to fight an invasion when the defending forces let them land on the beach. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6312,29794,27114,5840,2954,5388,24811,1330,625,2715,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}