San Francisco 49ers long snapper Taber Pepper slammed Democrats for failing President-elect Trump's “two election cycles,” saying that failure “ironically” pushed him further to the left.
In response to a highly critical statement by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Pepper laid the blame for Trump's landslide election victory at the feet of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
“Ironically, after this election cycle, I am being pushed further to the left,” Pepper wrote to X. “The DNC has failed against Trump in two election cycles, and they haven't learned.
“If they don't grow, they die. They can't keep implementing the same strategy and expect the election results to change.”
In his post, Sanders blamed the DNC's abandonment of the working class as a key reason for the party's defeat.
“It's not really surprising that the Democratic Party, which has abandoned working-class people, now realizes that the working class has abandoned them,” Sanders said. “First it was the white working class, but now it’s Latinos and black workers as well.
“While Democratic leaders defend the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they are right.”
Sanders' statement was not well received by the DNC. DNC Chairman Jamie Harrison called the Vermont senator's statement “plain BS.”
“Biden has been the most pro-labor president I've ever spent my life saving in a union pension, created millions of good-paying jobs, and even marched on picket lines. Some of MVP's plans are , would have fundamentally changed the quality of life and closed off the wealth of the race's “disparities for working people across this country,'' Harrison wrote of X.
“From the child tax credit to 25,000 for a down payment on a home, to Medicare covering senior care costs at home. There's been a lot of post-election coverage, and it's not good.”
Of course, if any of these were true, Vice President Harris could have won the election.
