Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said on Sunday that the Democrats should emphasize that they support the Democrats working class as some voters argue the party has instead embraced a “woke agenda.”
President-elect Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election and won all seven swing states. The defeat has raised many questions about the Democrats’ approach to this election season. Senator Sanders of Vermont, who was easily re-elected, has accused the party of abandoning the working class.
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“We need an agenda that says to the working class, we’re going to take on these powerful special interests and create an economy and a government that works for you,” Sanders said on CNN’s State of the Union.
FILE – Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., talks to the media as he walks to the House chamber before President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address at the U.S. Capitol, Thursday, March 7, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
However, CNN reporter Dana Bash noted that there are some social and cultural differences with people claiming that the Democratic party has embraced a “woke agenda.”
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Sanders said, “Trump has done a good job of claiming that Democrats are doing nothing but the woke agenda.”
“The Democrats should be proud that they stand up for women’s rights, abortion rights, gay rights and civil rights. But the focus should be… to make it clear that we are willing to stand with the vast majority of people, many of whom are falling further and further behind, while the people at the top (are) phenomenally rich,” he added to it.
Sanders earlier this week released a statement stating that Democrats have “failed the working class.” Union leaders supported the Biden administration, and President Joe Biden called himself the most pro-labor president in American history.
Harris struggled with voters making less than $100,000 compared to President Joe Biden. In 2020, he won 56% of the vote among that group. Harris lost the group to Trump, 50% to 46%. This is one in a long list of subsets of working-class voters who turned to the Republican ticket this time around.
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Democratic lawmakers such as former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have pushed back against Sanders’ belief that Democrats have lost the working class.
Pelosi told the New York Times earlier this week: “I have a lot of respect for him, for what he stands for, but I have no respect for him when he says the Democratic Party has failed working families. That’s where we are.”
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