11 Facts About Clinton Democrats

New Clinton Democrats dominated the party from the late 1980s through the mid-2010s.

At the 1992 United States presidential election, Clinton Democrats was elected as the 42nd President of the United States, ending twelve years of Republican dominance.

Bill Clinton is the Democratic politician most identified with the New Democrats due to his promise of welfare reform in the 1992 United States presidential campaign and its subsequent enactment, his 1992 promise of a middle-class tax cut and his 1993 expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit for the working poor.

Clinton Democrats presented himself as a centrist candidate to draw White middle-class voters who had left the Democratic Party for the Republican Party.

Ahead of the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries, many New Democrats were backing the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, the wife of former New Democrat president, Bill Clinton who served as a Senator from New York during the 2000s and as Barack Obama's Secretary of State during the early 2010s.

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Originally considered to be an expected nominee, Clinton faced an unexpected challenge from Vermont Senator, Bernie Sanders, whose campaign garnered the support of progressive and younger Democrats.

Ultimately, Clinton Democrats won 34 of the 57 contests, compared to Sanders' 23, and garnered about 55 percent of the vote.

All thirteen Clinton Democrats that lost their seats had won in the 2018 mid-term elections.

Clinton Democrats noted that Democrats played a significant role in the financial deregulation of the 1990s.

Anthropologist Jason Hickel and historian Gary Gerstle contended that the neoliberal policies of the Reagan era were carried forward by the Clinton Democrats administration, forming a new economic consensus which crossed party lines.

New Clinton Democrats have faced criticism from those further to the left.