The key Democrats forming a resistance to Trump

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  Good morning.

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  It's Friday, March 14th.

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  I'm Shemitah Basu.

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  This is Apple News Today.

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  On today's show,

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  politicians on the left are testing out different resistance messages against Trump.

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  Senator Chuck Schumer gets on board with Republicans funding bill

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  and a giant of the fashion industry steps away.

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  let's start with a pulse check on Democratic Party leadership and opposition to President Trump.

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  Seven weeks into the new administration, in the flurry of early actions by Trump,

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  Democratic voices were largely sidelined by a barrage of daily headlines.

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  But in the past few weeks and days,

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  we've seen a number of Democrats and at least one independent step forward

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  and position themselves as messengers for voters who are feeling disillusioned with Trump.

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  For more on what the opposition looks like and how it's taking shape,

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  I called up Dave Weigel, national political reporter at Semaphore,

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  and I asked him

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  if it feels like the Democratic response to Trump is only starting to gel in the past few days.

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  It does. Yes, Democrats came together a bit more over the last week,

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  but their fate was not entirely in their hands.

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