If you’re a Republican, you could be forgiven for enjoying the slow-motion train wreck otherwise known as the Democratic Party in 2025. No leader. No coherent message. A base split between limousine liberals, professional activists, and socialist dreamers. And now—if you can believe it—party leadership is floating the idea of dusting off a relic from the Carter era: a pre-midterm national convention.
Yes, you read that right. A national spectacle in 2026, designed to rally donors, boost media attention, and put their “rising stars” front and center. On paper, it’s a Hail Mary attempt to close a $65 million fundraising gap with Republicans. At the end of the first half of 2025, Democrats had just $15 million on hand, compared to the GOP’s $80 million war chest. That’s not just a gap. That’s a canyon. And it gets worse: the DNC is reportedly on the hook for bailing out Kamala Harris’ failed campaign to the tune of $20.5 million.
Senior Democratic Party officials are weighing the possibility of holding a rare national convention before the 2026 midterm elections, according to people familiar with the discussions. https://t.co/ZsJH2jTmiP
— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) August 27, 2025
So DNC Chair Ken Martin is scrambling. Enter the convention idea. The logic goes something like this: if the party can put itself on national television, showcase its “talent,” and gin up enthusiasm, the donors will follow. But here’s the rub—Democrats have tried this before. They held midterm conventions in 1978 and 1982, only to scrap the practice by 1986 because it was such an obvious waste of time and energy.
And this is 2026 we’re talking about. A year when the Democrats’ favorability rating has sunk to 34 percent (per RealClearPolling) and the party has developed an uncanny ability to step on every rake in sight.
Democrats are getting crushed in fundraising, with only $15M in the chest compared to Republicans’ $80M, Nearly a year out from the 2026 midterm elections, Democrats are facing a money problem. Democrats lost the presidency, the House, and the Senate to Republicans, the party… pic.twitter.com/tCaIGzKmhq
— papamaga (@papaneeed1) August 19, 2025
Picture it: a “unity convention” that inevitably devolves into a contest of who can be the most radical. Expect stolen land acknowledgments, drag queen showcases, and earnest lectures about how “migrant crime and carjackings don’t matter to that many Americans”—yes, an actual quote from Vera Institute VP Insha Rahman at this year’s DNC meeting. This isn’t a strategy. It’s a highlight reel of everything that alienates middle America.
The media, of course, would swoon. MSNBC anchors would practically be giddy, treating the event as if Democrats had already flipped 50 House seats and taken back the Senate. But the real America? They’d see a party more concerned with ideology than reality. A party pretending to speak for “the people” while sneering at crime victims, parents, and anyone outside the coastal bubble.
Speaker at the DNC’s Summer Meeting: “Migrant crime and carjackings are things that don’t matter to many Americans.”
Uhhh I’m pretty sure most people don’t want to be carjacked or attacked by an illegal alien.pic.twitter.com/WPKWzYx287
— CJ Pearson (@thecjpearson) August 25, 2025
