Democrats are pointing fingers and scrambling for answers over what went wrong with their message on the economy after a resounding loss by Vice President Harris to President-elect Trump that saw her fall in every single swing state.

Harris's loss was a bad one that extended to the Senate, where the GOP has picked up three seats and hopes to win a fourth in Pennsylvania. Several other Democrats in the Senate skated through tight races.

In the House, the party is scrambling to win the majority. If Republicans hold their majority, it will give the GOP unified power of the executive and legislative branches and allow Trump a chance to reshape a host of policies — a nightmare for Democrats.

The depths of the loss can also be seen in some of the margins in deep-blue states. In New Jersey, Harris only won by around 5 points after President Biden took the state by 16 points in 2020. Illinois has voted for Democratic presidential candidates by double digits in every such election since the 1990s. Harris looks like she will win it by 8 points.

The searing loss has exposed Democratic divisions, with leading progressives arguing their party lost its voice and failed to offer a message that resonated with working-class voters who abandoned the party.

They say Harris and the party at large lost its voice on the economy, the single more important issue in the fight with Trump.

While the Republican offered simple messages that appeared to resonate with the electorate — tariffs, tariffs, and tariffs, coupled with a message that Biden and Harris had broken the economy and Trump would fix it — Harris's message was muddled.

“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 Wednesday in a blistering statement.

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