As President Donald Trump celebrated his consequential first 100 days in office this week, Democratic leaders Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries promised to unveil their party’s platform for the rest of the Trump administration. Instead, their speeches and publicity events struggled to find a coherent, substantive message beyond their undying opposition to the 47th president.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris returned to the spotlight during a 15-minute-long speech to the annual gala of Emerge America, a left-leaning group that recruits women to run for office. There, Harris returned to her 2024 campaign norm: overly rehearsed lines and choreographed gesticulations, sandwiched between bouts of mugging and giggling.

“Understand,” she commanded viewers, the Trump administration is “a high-velocity event, where a vessel is being used for the swift implementation of an agenda that has been decades in the making” to “slash public education … shrink government and then privatize its services, all while giving tax breaks to the wealthiest among us.”

Rather than offer an alternative, she predicted Democratic elected officials’ cowardice would trigger a “constitutional crisis” where the only salvation will be “the voice of the people,” expressed through mass resistance.

“Just like on the campaign trail, it was as though solutions could not be discussed. The only theme was: Trump bad,” wrote Kate Andrews in The Spectator. At one point, Harris began discussing viral video footage of elephants in the San Francisco zoo during an earthquake as she gave her signature cackle.

Solutions failed to emerge even when promised. “On Wednesday morning at 10:30 a.m., I will deliver a speech talking to the country about the first 100 days and outlining a blueprint for a better America,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) told his fellow Democrats in a “Dear colleague” letter released Monday morning.

But much like Beyoncé’s rumored concert at the Democratic National Convention or at a future Kamala Harris campaign rally, the agenda failed to take place. The closest America got to seeing a concrete Democratic agenda came by way of a pledge the party would unveil its designs by the first week of August.

During the speech, Jeffries said, “Over these next 100 days, House Democrats are going to lay out a blueprint for a better America,” a “vision for this country’s future that isn’t about Donald Trump. It’s all about you.” Until then, Democrats “will continue to push back aggressively.”

Instead, Democratic leaders unleashed a rhetorical battery on the president. “Donald Trump and the Republicans have given us 100 days of chaos, 100 days of cruelty, and 100 days of corrupt behavior,” declaimed Jeffries, who called the administration a “debacle.”

“It’s 100 days of just crap,” said Minnesota Governor and unsuccessful 2024 vice presidential candidate Tim Walz (D) on Tuesday.

“Donald Trump’s first 100 days have been 100 days from Hell,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on the Senate floor Wednesday.

Schumer revisited the Democrats’ unsuccessful 2024 campaign strategy of calling President Trump a fascist, saying the president is “acting like a king, a despot, a wannabe dictator.”

The closest Democrats got to specificity came when Harris saluted the actions of potential Democratic rivals, including:

• Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who traveled to El Salvador to try to return a deported MS-13 member to the United States.
• Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who have hosted a series of “Fighting Oligarchy” events, one of which featured a blasphemous song from a trans-identifying singer.
• Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), who has made a series of racially charged statements about Republicans.
• Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.), whose mother placed him in adoption, opposed a bill requiring abortionists to provide life-saving care to newborns who survive botched abortions, claiming the bill violated the rights of “child-bearing adults,” and claimed the Parents Bill of Rights would cause “hate, bigotry and, yes, sometimes death of our students.”

“Don’t be fooled by the so-called unified front, because Democrats are anything but unified at this point,” Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.) told “Washington Watch” guest host and former Congressman Jody Hice Wednesday.

Tiffany pointed to Democratic governors such as J.B. Pritzker in Illinois, Tony Evers in Wisconsin, and Tim Walz in Minnesota as failures where citizens have made a mass exodus and are “headed to the states largely run by red state governors.” Pritzker “just basically doubled down” on the Democratic agenda: “‘We’re going to have boys in girls’ sports. We legalize marijuana in Illinois. That’s a great success. We legalized abortion.’ All these things they’re pointing as a success [are] the reason they were defeated on November 5.”

Despite media attempts to portray President Trump as uniquely unpopular as he approached his 100 days in office, including 92.2% negative coverage from the three major networks, only 2% of Trump voters would change their vote, according to CNN’s Harry Enten.

Meanwhile, both Schumer and Jeffries have net unfavorable ratings. Schumer has a 17% favorable and 40% unfavorable rating, including a 10% net unfavorable rating among young Democrats and Democratic-voting independents. Jeffries is also underwater: 20% favorable, 27% unfavorable. The results marked Schumer’s lowest rating in that poll since 2017, the first year of the first Trump administration.

“Senator Schumer is being dismissed by the American people because they know it’s just rhetoric. He’s not providing results for the American people,” said Tiffany. “President Trump is following through on what he said he would do last fall and what people voted for on November 5.”

Pollsters agree with the assessment that the Democrats appear rudderless. “The Democrats don’t really have a platform or authenticity to convince voters that all of a sudden they have an answer to MAGA,” Mark Mitchell, chief pollster at Rasmussen Reports, told Hice Monday.

In addition, Sanders and AOC’s polls look “not that great,” Mitchell remarked. “They are third, fourth, fifth when ranked against other Democrats” who may seek the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination. “They have no chance. Americans fundamentally think that free market economies are better. They’re not going to vote for open socialist candidates.”

“There’s a vacuum in the Democratic Party,” concluded Mitchell.