Democratic strategist David Axelrod spoke on CNN Thursday about Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy's assessment of the Democratic Party following Vice President Harris' loss to President-elect Trump in the 2024 White House race. agreed.
“Get rid of the guys who are pulling the strings in the Democratic Party. They've lost the plot.” Portnoy said Wednesday, “Tonight is about the Democratic Party,” and later said, “They're holding themselves in the mirror.” “You have to look at the sense of moral superiority and arrogance that they have, and that's not working.” “It's time to wake up and see it.”
Mr. Axelrod, a former chief strategist for former President Barack Obama's campaign, generally agreed with Mr. Portnoy's views on the party.
“I absolutely think that's the way it is,” Axelrod said Thursday on CNN. “I don’t know if I just said that, but I think his point is spot on.”
The veteran strategist agreed with Portnoy that the election result was a “strong endorsement” of Donald Trump and “a rejection of the incumbent, but also a rejection of this stance that he's talking about.” I didn't.
Following her defeat in the race, in which Ms. Harris lost all seven battleground states and Mr. Trump won some Democratic strongholds, some, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (R-Vermont), Those in the section claimed that the party had abandoned the working class. Others, like Democratic National Committee Chairman Jamie Harrison, pushed back, claiming that President Biden is “the most professional working president of my lifetime.”
“I think we have an obligation to respect people's actions and what they mean. You know, the blue-collar workers, the people who do things backwards, they're the ones that keep this country going.” Those voters, Axelrod added, “feel slighted and feel like their priorities are not the Democratic Party's priorities.”
Axelrod said Wednesday that “racial bias” and “sexism” had some influence on the election results.
“Let's be honest about this. Let's be completely frank: There are invocations of racism in this campaign, there is racial bias in this country, there is sexism in this country. “There is,” Axelrod said, later praising the Trump campaign's “very smart” campaign management. .
