Nancy Pelosi fires back at Bernie Sanders for comments on Dems’ sweeping election loss: No ‘respect’

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has taken exception to comments by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who claims Democrats lost last week's election by “abandoning” the working class. He joined the Democrats.

“With all due respect, I have a lot of respect for him.” [Sanders]for what he stands for, but I don't respect his statement that the Democratic Party has abandoned working class families. That’s where we are,” Pelosi said Saturday on the New York Times podcast “The Interview.”

She continued, “Under President Biden, we have relief, money in people's pockets, bullets in people's arms, kids are safely in school, and working people are back to work. Trump is president There was one bill that gave tax cuts to the wealthiest people in America.

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Ms. Pelosi's comments suggest that Ms. Sanders told It comes a few days after he posted “It's not that surprising.''

“Democratic leadership is defending the status quo, but the American people are angry and want change, and they're right,” he wrote in part.

Sanders, an independent and usually an ally of the Democratic Party, won re-election in the Vermont Senate election last Tuesday with a landslide victory of 32.1 percent to Republican challenger Gerald Malloy's 63.3 percent.

At the same time, voters handed Democrats several defeats in key House and Senate races. Republicans have turned the Senate red, and are inching closer to maintaining a majority in the House.

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Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at an election night event at the Palm Beach Convention Center on November 6, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Republicans achieved major victories in elections across the country. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

In addition, President-elect Donald Trump achieved a decisive victory over Vice President Kamala Harris, overwhelmingly winning all seven battleground states, an almost unprecedented result as opinion polls predicted a close race. It became.

Asked why so many voters with incomes under $100,000 voted for Trump, Pelosi blamed the loss on “cultural issues.”

“There are cultural issues at play in the election. Guns, God, and gays — that's what they say.”

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