Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki said she believes Democrats focused too much on anti-Trump rhetoric instead of trying to win back voters who left the Democratic Party this election cycle.
“There's been a lot of headwind here. There's sexism, there's racism, all of that is true, but I think there's also real questions that I wish people would start thinking about who they're listening to.” she said in an interview Friday. Appeared on MSNBC. “In my view, they listened too much and elevated too much the people who left Trump instead of the people who left the Democratic Party.”
“The people who left the Democratic Party are the ones who will win in the future,” she later added.
“I think the people who have moved away from Trump, the Never Trumpers who have a significant voice, it's not a winning coalition, that's the takeaway,” she said.
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) was one of the vice president's most high-profile Republican supporters. Several other people who worked for Donald Trump also supported Vice President Harris in the presidential race.
Harris' campaign spent the final weeks of the campaign highlighting Republican lawmakers who criticized the second Trump administration, including Cheney, who declared the former president a “fascist.”
Psaki said the closing arguments did not resonate with many people across the country.
“Fascism and the threat to democracy are big issues in this country. These are issues that should be discussed by journalists, but they are not appropriate as a final message to reach the masses of this country,” Psaki said. “People don't relate to it, they don't understand it. I hope that's a lesson.”
