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Democrats in the wilderness search for answers
Democrats are searching for answers after a nationwide shift to the right sent the party to a historic defeat.
Republicans are on the brink of unified control in Washington, after President-elect Trump cut deep into the Democrats’ traditional base of voters, including racial minorities and working class people.
Vice President Harris performed best among wealthy people who went to college, a massive red flag for Democrats in a country where nearly two-thirds don’t have a college degree.
Polls consistently showed Americans were fed up with the high cost of living and didn’t feel the economy was working for them.“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,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said. “While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.”
Immigration was another animating issue in 2024, and Democrats failed to convince voters they could be trusted to secure the border.
Latinos voted for Trump in astonishing numbers, even as he promised mass deportations and Democrats condemned his rhetoric as racist.
“This is a realignment,” Rep. Nikki Budzinski (D-Ill) told NBC News. “Our country has moved to the right. It’s not center left. Our party needs to grapple with it and find its footing in that world.”
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) blamed progressives for dragging the party too far to the left. He said Democrats have lost the ability to speak to ordinary Americans because they’re trapped in a liberal echo chamber.
“Donald Trump has no greater friend than the far left, which has managed to alienate historic numbers of Latinos, Blacks, Asians, and Jews from the Democratic Party with absurdities like ‘Defund the Police’ or ‘From the River to the Sea’ or ‘Latinx,’” Torres tweeted.
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