Democrats weigh change in strategy to avoid midterm and 2028 defeats
By
Haisten Willis
November 7, 2024 6:00 am
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Democrats have started soul-searching on what went wrong after voters decisively sent Donald Trump back to the Oval Office and turned over control of the Senate to Republicans.
The infighting played out publicly and privately about missteps, from Harris’s failure to distance herself from past radical social positions to Democrats implying Trump’s supporters were trash or even fascists. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) contended that Democrats fundamentally misunderstood the economic frustrations of voters.
“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,” Sanders, the two-time presidential candidate, wrote on social media.
For her part, Harris’s concession speech at Howard University on Wednesday offered little introspection for her loss and she instead encouraged supporters to find light if there are “dark” days ahead.
“While I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign,” she told tearful supporters at her alma mater. “The fight, the fight for freedom, for opportunity, for fairness, and the dignity of all people.”
Trump soundly defeated his opponent by promising to curb illegal immigration, erase inflation, and improve job prospects for the working class through protectionism, which he says will revive the manufacturing sector.
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