MSNBC political commentator Symone Sanders Townsend objected, like others on the network this week, to describing Donald Trump’s voters as “working class” and suggested as a colleague Joy Reid done on Tuesdaythat white women are uniquely to blame for the vice president’s resounding defeat Kamala Harris.
During a Saturday segment on MSNBC’s The weekendTownsend and the rest of the panel discussed Tuesday how the Democratic party should evaluate the historic loss and whether lessons can be learned from it.
Election data shows Trump has increased his support in nearly every voter group, including Latino men and white women. Trump also increased his support in some areas of heavily Democratic states, including around New York City, and captured Democratic stronghold counties in places like Texas and Florida.
However, Townsend seemed to point the finger – literally – at white women and said they needed to address it “internally” to figure out why this would happen.
I’m actually really appalled by this whole working class voter conversation, because aren’t black people working class? Okay. If it’s really about the problems, if it’s really about the message. How did that message get through to the black working class and not the majority of others?
And I see all of you white women and Hispanic voters in my inbox right now saying, but we voted for her. Yes, but let me explain how this works. Okay. As a black woman in America, when something happens and someone does something.
You know, then it’s like I understand that I didn’t do it. But we need to discuss things for everyone. So this is the box we’re in. I understand there are white women here who voted for Kamala Harris, but honey, 52% of you voted for Donald Trump. And this wasn’t the first time. Now for the third time.
So you have to come together and tackle it internally. So I understand you didn’t do it, but enough people have done it and you all managed to have a conversation.
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