Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders issued a scathing assertion on what he referred to as the Democratic Celebration’s “disastrous” marketing campaign after Vice President Kamala Harris misplaced the presidential election to former President Donald Trump.
The impartial, who caucuses with Democrats, mentioned it “ought to come as no nice shock {that a} Democratic Celebration which has deserted working class individuals would discover that the working class has deserted them.”
“First, it was the white working class, and now it’s Latino and Black employees as properly,” Sanders continued in his assertion. “Whereas the Democratic management defends the established order, the American individuals are offended and need change. They usually’re proper.”
The longtime progressive champion, who ran for president in 2016 and 2020, mirrored on the methods Individuals proceed to expertise financial instability, from revenue and wealth inequality to an absence of assured paid household and medical go away.
On this March 7, 2024, file photograph, Sen. Bernie Sanders talks to the media as he walks to the Home chamber earlier than President Joe Biden’s State of the Union deal with on the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C.
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Sanders additionally criticized continued spending on army assist to Israel.
“At present, regardless of sturdy opposition from a majority of Individuals, we proceed to spend billions funding the extremist Netanyahu authorities’s all out warfare towards the Palestinian individuals which has led to the horrific humanitarian catastrophe of mass malnutrition and the hunger of 1000’s of youngsters,” Sanders mentioned.
Sanders, who gained reelection Tuesday to a fourth six-year time period within the U.S. Senate, solid doubt concerning the get together’s capacity to be taught its lesson.
“Will the massive cash pursuits and well-paid consultants who management the Democratic Celebration be taught any actual classes from this disastrous marketing campaign? Will they perceive the ache and political alienation that tens of tens of millions of Individuals are experiencing? Have they got any concepts as to how we will tackle the more and more highly effective Oligarchy which has a lot financial and political energy? Most likely not,” Sanders mentioned.
Sanders mentioned “very critical political discussions” at the moment are merited concerning the path ahead for “these of us involved about grassroots democracy and financial justice,” earlier than ending his assertion with, “Keep tuned.”
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at Howard College in Washington, Nov. 6, 2024.
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Harris conceded the election in a speech on Wednesday at her alma mater, Howard College, in Washington, D.C.
“Whereas I concede this election, I don’t concede the struggle that fueled this marketing campaign,” she mentioned. “The struggle for freedom, for alternative, for equity and the dignity of all individuals — a struggle for the beliefs on the coronary heart of our nation — the beliefs that mirror America at our greatest.”
Harris’ concession speech got here after Trump was projected to win the swing states of Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
