Bernie Sanders slams Democratic Party, calls campaign ‘disastrous’ after Trump win
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., blasted the Democratic Party in the wake of Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential victory.
The left-wing lawmaker, who is listed as a member of the Senate Democratic Caucus, accused the party of abandoning the working class.
“It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that a Democratic Party that has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. First, it was the white working class, and now it’s Latino and Black workers, too,” Sanders said in the statement.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks on the second day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Ill., on Aug. 20, 2024. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)
“While the Democratic leadership is defending the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right,” he continued.
Trump decisively defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, winning key states including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.
Sanders called Harris’ campaign “disastrous.”
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks on the second day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Ill., on Aug. 20, 2024 (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
“Will the big interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party really learn any lessons from this disastrous campaign?” he asked.
“Will they understand the pain and political alienation experienced by tens of millions of Americans?” he added. “Do they have any idea how we can deal with the increasingly powerful oligarchy that has so much economic and political power? Probably not.”
While Republicans won a majority in the Senate in the 2024 election, the 83-year-old Sanders, who has served in the House since 2007, just won another 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 via Getty Images)
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“Incredibly, inflation-adjusted real weekly wages for the average American worker are actually lower now than they were 50 years ago,” he said in the statement. “Today, despite the boom in technology and worker productivity, many young people will have a worse standard of living than their parents.”
“Today, despite spending far more per capita than other countries, we remain the only wealthy nation that does not guarantee health care to all as a human right, and we pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. We, alone among major countries, cannot even guarantee paid family and medical leave,” he argued.
“Today, despite the strong opposition of the majority of Americans, we continue to spend billions to fund the extremist Netanyahu government’s all-out war against the Palestinian people that has led to the horrific humanitarian catastrophe of mass malnutrition and starvation of thousands of children.” the senator said in the statement.
Sanders noted in a tweet this week that he was “proud” to vote for Harris.