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Independent Senator Bernie Sanders’ harsh words about the Democratic Party’s losses on election night made party leaders even angrier than before.
“It shouldn’t be a huge surprise that a Democratic Party that has failed the working class finds that the working class has failed them. While Democratic leaders defend the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they are right,” the Vermont senator said in a fiery statement after the election was called.
Sanders said the Democratic Party wasn’t talking to voters enough, if at all, about issues like inflation, historically low wages, AI, skyrocketing prescription drug costs, sending billions of dollars to Israel’s “horrific” war on Palestine, and the widespread war against Palestine. corporate corruption.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison disagreed with Sanders’ comments, calling them “downright BS.”
“Biden was the most pro-worker president of my lifetime. Time-saving Union pensions, created millions of good-paying jobs and even marched in a picket line. Some of Kamala Harris’ plans would have fundamentally transformed the quality of life and the racial wealth gap for working people in this country,” Harrison tweeted Thursday morning.
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“From child tax credits to $25,000 for a home down payment to Medicare to cover healthcare costs for seniors at home. There are a lot of post-election recordings and this one isn’t a good one.
In any case, there is a clear gulf between the Democratic Party and the large groups of working-class voters who have resoundingly rejected their plan this election cycle.
Fully 67 percent of voters nationwide said the economy under President Biden has been bad for them.
David Axelrod — a CNN political analyst who previously worked for the Obama campaign — also lambasted Democrats, saying they are turning into a “smart, suburban, college-educated party” that could continue to lose elections if nothing changes.
“You can’t approach working people as missionaries and say, ‘We’re here to help you become more like us.’ There is a kind of unspoken contempt, unintentional contempt in it,” Axelrod, a CNN contributor, said in an interview with the outlet.
Axelrod praised Biden for doing “good things for working people” but argued that the party as a whole has “become more and more of a smart, suburban, college-educated party, and it lends itself to the kind of resistance that we’ve seen.” .”
After the loss of Vice President Kamala Harris, Democrats began pointing fingers at who or what was responsible for the unrest. Axelrod weighed in on the defeat alongside CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
“I’m concerned about the way the Democratic Party relates to working-class voters in this country,” Axelrod told Cooper. “The only group Democrats could win in Tuesday’s election were white college graduates, and among working-class voters there was a significant decline.”
“I’m concerned about the way the Democratic Party relates to working-class voters in this country,” he added. “The only group Democrats won in Tuesday’s election were white college graduates. And among working-class voters there was a significant decline.”
Axelrod seemed to agree with Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, when he said that blue-collar and other similar voters “feel like they are viewed as less than and that their priorities are not the priorities of the Democratic Party.”
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has broken his silence after he and Harris suffered a historic defeat at the hands of Trump.
In a statement posted on Wednesday After Harris conceded the election to President-elect Trump, Walz thanked the vice president for his choice.
“Thank you Vice President @KamalaHarris for trusting me and selecting me as your running mate,” he said in messages online. “Campaigning alongside you has been the honor and privilege of my life.”
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