Pelosi Won. The Democratic Party Lost.

[Celerity]

143. I wager they use Democrat because of the term New Democrat

A coalition of New Democrats, modified linguistically to New Democrat Coalition.

New Democrats

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Democrats_(United_States)

New Democrats, also known as centrist Democrats, Clinton Democrats or moderate Democrats, are a centrist ideological faction within the Democratic Party in the United States. As the Third Way faction of the party, they are seen as culturally liberal on social issues while being moderate or fiscally conservative on economic issues. New Democrats dominated the party from the late 1980s through the early-2010s, and continue to be a large coalition in the modern Democratic Party.

However, with the rise of progressivism in 2016 and 2020, and the right-wing populism of Donald Trump, New Democrats began to change and update their ideological positions. For example, New Democrat candidates have shifted from focusing on "defense of marriage" platforms to casting "the issue of transgender rights" as contentious. Similarly, debates over tax cuts on capital gains have been reconfigured to removing caps on state and local tax deduction.

Despite expansion of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, even with stricter criteria for "Progressive" representation in Congress, the New Democrats' Progressive Policy Institute (established in 1989) persists into the present day, recently sponsoring "young pragmatists" at the rechristened Center for New Liberalism (formerly known as the Neoliberal Project) to "modernize progressive politics."