Progressives and Bidenswift clash as Democrats point fingers

After Harris’ defeat of the newly elected president Donald TrumpDemocrats on all sides of the spectrum were quick to point fingers and find solutions to why her 100-day campaign failed to muster enough electoral blocs to elect her over Trump.

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Progressives like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) rocked the party on Wednesday after he criticized Democratic leadership for defending the “status quo” and said it was “no wonder” working-class voters “abandoned them.” at the polling stations.

This did not please the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Jamie Harrison, who called Sanders’ words “outright stupid.”

“Biden has been the most pro-worker president of my lifetime — he preserved Union pensions, created millions of good-paying jobs, and even marched in picket lines, and some of the MVP plans would fundamentally change the quality of life and close the racial wealth gap for people. working people across this country,” Harrison wrote in a post to X. “From the child tax credit to a 25k down payment on a home to Medicare covering the cost of health care for seniors in their own homes.”

“There’s a lot going on after the election, and it’s not a good thing,” Harrison added.

Strategists and analysts are already scrambling for answers to determine how Harris missed out on so many voting blocs despite her concerted outreach efforts.

Although Harris broke records by raising more than $1 billion and her campaign touted a large number of voter registrations in her 100 days of campaigning, it was not enough to win states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina. On Wednesday, Harris acknowledged Trump’s election but said she “doesn’t recognize the fight that fueled this campaign.”

Democratic members of Congress were quick to offer their explanations, with some like Congressman Richie Torres (D-NY) blaming the far left for working-class votes for Republicans.

In a post for X, he said the far left had succeeded in “alienating historic numbers of Hispanics, Blacks, Asians, and Jews from the Democratic Party with absurdities like “Defund the Police,” “From the River to the Sea,” or “Latinos.” .’”

“There is more to lose than to gain politically by pandering to the far left, which is more representative of Twitter, Twitch and TikTok than the real world,” Torres said. “The working class aren’t buying the ivory-bill nonsense being peddled by the far-left.”

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), one member of the so-called progressive “squad,” said in a social media video that Democrats lost because working-class people turned to Trump.

“Our main project is to unite the working class in this country against the fascist agenda,” she said said. “We failed miserably in this election because the fascists won a lot of support from the working class, which has never happened before in history.”

Although not all states were up for election in 2024, Trump received 295 electoral votes to Harris’ 226, with 270 needed to win the Electoral College and the presidency.

Meanwhile, several races in the Battle Chamber and several races in the Senate stay too close to call. Republicans flipped the Senate, but the battle for control of the House is still on.