Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., criticized the Democratic Party following Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election.
Left-leaning members of the Senate Democratic Caucus accused the party of abandoning the working class.
“It's not really surprising that the Democratic Party, which has abandoned working-class people, realizes that the working class has abandoned them. First it was the white working class, now it's the white working class. The same goes for Latino workers and black workers.” said in a statement.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during the second day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 20, 2024. (Charlie Tribarrow/AFP via Getty Images)
“While Democratic leaders defend the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they are right.”
Trump decisively defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, winning key battleground states such as Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
Sanders characterized Harris' campaign as “disastrous.”
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“Can the big interest interests and highly paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign?” he asked.
“Will they understand the pain and political alienation that tens of millions of Americans are experiencing?” he added. “Do they have any ideas about how to counter an increasingly powerful, economically and politically powerful oligarchy? Probably not. ”
Republicans won a Senate majority in the 2024 elections, but Sanders, 83, has just won another six-year term in the House of Representatives since 2007.
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“Incredibly, the average American worker's real weekly wage, adjusted for inflation, is actually lower today than it was 50 years ago,” he said in a statement. “Today, despite the explosion in technology and worker productivity, many young people will have a worse standard of living than their parents.”
“Today, despite far higher per capita spending than other countries, we remain the only wealthy country in the world that does not guarantee universal health care as a human right, and “We are the only ones in the world to pay the highest prices in the world, and we cannot even guarantee paid family and medical leave,” he claimed.
“Today, despite the strong opposition of the vast majority of Americans, we continue to fund and spend billions of dollars in the extremist Netanyahu regime’s all-out war against the Palestinian people. “This is leading to a terrible humanitarian disaster, resulting in malnutrition and starvation for thousands of children,” the newspaper said. the senator declared in a statement.
Sanders tweeted this week that he was “proud” to vote for Harris.
