Democratic Party Should Be Embarrassed, Says Bernie Sanders

Days after suffering stunning and sweeping presidential and congressional defeats, the Democratic Party faces the challenge of repairing internal turmoil while mounting an appropriate response to an unpredictable but inevitable four-year battle against President-elect Donald Trump.

“If a Trump presidency at all resemble the Trump candidacy, Democrats nationwide will be buoyed by Republican backlash in the next two election cycles”, Carolyn Fiddler, a spokeswoman for the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, said in an email.

But in the 2018 campaigns, Republicans are sure to come after Democrats from states Trump won, using votes they take over these next two years that might displease conservative voters.

Meanwhile, Clinton had just about everything else going for her heading into this election.

Jaime Harrison, the SC party chairman, downplayed the idea that Trump’s nationalistic populism should necessarily push the Democratic Party leftward. Devoid of an opportunity to elect their favourite candidate in the general election, Donald Trump became the beneficiary of the Democrat’s unintentional benevolence.

The election two years from now had already looked hard for Senate Democrats, who must defend 25 seats compared to just eight held by Republicans. It was an insult to the intelligence of progressives, just as her attempts to appear genuine to the American people were disingenuous. Sanders ignited a progressive movement that leans heavily to the left, and during the primary season he polled very well against Clinton and Trump. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. speaks at a rally for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. It focused resources and time on states she didn’t need to win, such as North Carolina and OH, rather than spending time shoring up the famed blue wall, those 18 states that have voted Democrat for the past six elections. I think in retrospect now – and hindsight’s always 20-20 – the thing they needed to do was take a step back in the nominating process. “You’ve got to decide which side you’re on”.

There are certainly signs that the Democrats will empower the voices that have made the most impassioned pitches for revitalizing the economy for the working class. Senator Sanders (I) of Vermont is reportedly considering a run for a Senate leadership position, although it’s not clear which it would be.

Like the business cycle that pulls the USA economy up and down, political cycles are unavoidable in the modern American two-party system. The economic struggle that they confront every single day in their lives is overwhelming them. “And that will be fights over whether or not we have a broad and inclusive society or whether Trump falls back to the rhetoric that got him elected, which was the opposite of inclusion”.

The decision infuriated former President Bill Clinton who argued to campaign officials that they should pay greater attention to the voters who twice boosted her husband to office. And even though Congress has a Republican (or GOP) majority, many of these Republicans were opposed to Donald Trump running for president.

Democratic leaders are trying to calm their supporters’ fears.

Sanders told the Associated Press Clinton’s loss was embarrassing, saying the “Democratic message of standing up for working people no longer holds much sway among workers in this country”.

Wisconsin voted for Trump, shocking many in her campaign.

“The dems need organization and focus on the young”, Dean tweeted Thursday.

The national party partnered with battleground state parties, including Iowa, to develop a long-term strategy that started early with building relationships with organizers and voters. “I am in for chairman again”. If the President is a Democrat, he gets to nominate the DNC chair.