Former NBC “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd expressed concern on Monday that the Democratic Party didn’t get a big enough “shellacking” in 2024 to get the message that it must change course.

“A question that haunts me is, I don’t know if the Democrats have lost enough,” Todd told former Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier, who appeared as a guest on “The Chuck Toddcast.” “To me, when you lose as close as they lost, there’s too many – it’s too easy to tactically talk yourself into ‘Well, if we just do this, this or this.”

“The last time the Democrats had a real fight about its direction,” Todd argued, was after former President Ronald Reagan beat Michael Dukakis by 49 states in 1988.

“The shellacking of Dukakis in ’88 gave breathing room for Bill Clinton to make a counterargumen

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