This week on By The Ballot, Matt Royer breaks down Deciding to Win — a new report from the centrist group Welcome that claims to diagnose why Democrats keep losing and how to fix it. Spoiler: it’s more of the same “move to the middle” playbook that’s failed for decades.
Matt digs into what the report gets right about economic focus and messaging clarity — and where it goes completely off the rails by ignoring nonvoters, flattening nuance, and treating progress as a liability. From the myth of the “perfect candidate” to the Democratic penalty in red states, he lays out why the problem isn’t that Democrats are too bold — it’s that they’ve stopped believing in their own agenda.
🎧 Tune in for a sharp, unapologetic look at how Democrats can actually start deciding to win — by being bolder, braver, and refusing to retreat to the center.
