Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., excoriated the Democratic Get together within the wake of Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential election victory.
The left-wing lawmaker, who’s listed as a member of the Senate Democratic caucus, accused the occasion of abandoning the working class.
“It ought to come as no nice shock {that a} Democratic Get together which has deserted working class folks 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 nicely,” Sanders mentioned within the assertion.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks on the second day of the Democratic Nationwide Conference (DNC) on the United Middle in Chicago, Sick., on Aug. 20, 2024. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
“Whereas the Democratic management defends the established order, the American individuals are indignant and wish change. They usually’re proper,” he continued.
Trump decisively defeated Vice President Kamala Harris within the 2024 presidential election, profitable key swing states together with Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
Sanders characterised Harris’ marketing campaign as “disastrous.”
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks on the second day of the Democratic Nationwide Conference (DNC) on the United Middle in Chicago, Sick., on Aug. 20, 2024 (MANDEL NGAN/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
“Will the massive cash pursuits and well-paid consultants who management the Democratic Get together be taught any actual classes from this disastrous marketing campaign?” he requested.Â
“Will they perceive the ache and political alienation that tens of thousands and thousands of Individuals are experiencing?” he added. “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? In all probability not.”
Whereas Republicans received the Senate majority within the 2024 elections, the 83-year-old Sanders, who has served within the chamber since 2007, simply received one other six-year-term.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a labor rally for Harris-Walz in Harrisburg, Penn., on Oct. 27, 2024. (Nathan Morris/NurPhoto by way of Getty Photographs)
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“Unbelievably, actual, inflation-accounted-for weekly wages for the common American employee are literally decrease now than they had been 50 years in the past,” he mentioned within the assertion. “At the moment, regardless of an explosion of expertise and employee productiveness, many younger folks could have a worse lifestyle than their dad and mom.”
“At the moment, regardless of spending much more per capita than different nations, we stay the one rich nation to not assure well being care to all as a human proper and we pay, by far, the very best costs on the earth for prescribed drugs. We, alone amongst main nations, can not even assure paid household and medical go away,” he asserted.
“At the moment, regardless of sturdy opposition from a majority of Individuals, we proceed to spend billions funding the extremist Netanyahu authorities’s all out conflict in opposition to the Palestinian folks which has result in the horrific humanitarian catastrophe of mass malnutrition and the hunger of 1000’s of kids,” the senator declared within the assertion.
Sanders famous in a tweet this week that he was “proud” to vote for Harris.
