Bernie Sanders excoriates Democratic Party, calls campaign ‘disastrous’ after Trump victory
The 83-year-old lawmaker just won re-election to another six-year Senate term
By Alex Nitzberg/ Fox News/ November 7, 2024
CNN’s Tapper asks Bernie Sanders why Harris is on the campaign trail with Liz Cheney and not him
CNN host Jake Tapper pressed Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday about why Kamala Harris was campaigning with Liz Cheney, a Republican, and not with him.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., excoriated the Democratic Party in the wake of Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential election victory.
The left-wing lawmaker, who is listed as a member of the Senate Democratic caucus, accused the party of abandoning the working class.
“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well,” Sanders said in the statement.
Sen. Bernie Sanders addresses delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 20, 2024. (Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images)
“While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right,” he continued.
Trump decisively defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, winning key swing states including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.
Sanders characterized Harris’ campaign as “disastrous.”
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Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 20, 2024. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
“Will the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign?” he asked.
“Will they understand the pain and political alienation that tens of millions of Americans are experiencing?” he added. “Do they have any ideas as to how we can take on the increasingly powerful oligarchy which has so much economic and political power? Probably not.”
While Republicans won the Senate majority in the 2024 elections, the 83-year-old Sanders, who has served in the chamber since 2007, just won another six-year-term.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a labor rally for Harris-Walz in Harrisburg, Penn., on Oct. 27, 2024. (Nathan Morris/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
“Unbelievably, real, inflation-accounted-for weekly wages for the average American worker are actually lower now than they were 50 years ago,” he said in the statement. “Today, despite an explosion of technology and worker productivity, many young people will have a worse standard of living than their parents.”
“Today, despite spending far more per capita than other countries, we remain the only wealthy nation not to guarantee health care to all as a human right and we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. We, alone among major countries, cannot even guarantee paid family and medical leave,” he asserted.
“Today, despite strong opposition from a majority of Americans, we continue to spend billions funding the extremist Netanyahu government’s all out war against the Palestinian people which has lead to the horrific humanitarian disaster of mass malnutrition and the starvation of thousands of children,” the senator declared in the statement.
Sanders noted in a tweet this week that he was “proud” to vote for Harris.
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Bernie is right again!
I have heard a never-ending stream of complaints by college educated people (male and female) in the last two years, that the party of Kamala Harris did not exactly abandon the whites but that she just plain absolutely forgot them.
Even my many Mexican American friends have said the same thing though I always used to think that they believe themselves to be white since most California Mexicans have over 50 percent European blood from Germany, France, and England and can prove it with their DNA family trees that many pay for.
Having said that, I reject all talk that blames &/or pointed fingers.
That activity is only destructive and when Democrats do that, it is extremely welcomed by the right wing.
My Right Wing Friends freely admit that it gives them great joy to witness Democrats biting each other and Democrats have done that after most elections since Nixon won the White House.
Admittedly, Democrats have never been anything but a coalition party, unlike the NAZI Goose Steppers of the Post Reagun, Post Gingrich, Post Norquist Republican Party.
That discontent among all the branches of the Left Wing has always been the rule and never the exception for all of my life.
This last election, the differences in behaviors between the Republicans and Democrats ought to have been assumed from the start. Either the Democrats were brain dead over the different approaches to government between right and left………
or they just plain forgot the lessons that are now approaching 100 years old!!!
Believe me: This is absolutely the WRONG TIME for Democrats to beat each other up and whip each other’s bottoms until they bleed………
PLEASE DEAR GOD …..
Do something to
prevent the PROGRESSIVES
FROM doing nothing but chiding, castigating, chastising, rebuking, lambasting or in any other way trying to bully Democrats into submission and concession.
Please don’t let the Progressives do the whipping on behalf of the Republicans or in anyway tell all Democrats that worked hard “I told you so!!!”
YT/RET