After Kamala Harris’ decisive loss, Democrats enter a second Donald Trump presidency with “no clear leader, no clear plan and no agreement” on what led to their defeat, Associated Press reports.
“I think there needs to be a cleaning of the house, there needs to be a new generation of leaders that emerge,” AP quoted California Representative Ro Khanna as saying.
“There needs to be new thinking, new ideas and a new direction. And, you know, the establishment produced a disaster.”
Operatives from the party’s progressive wing condemned Harris’s campaign for investing a great amount of time and resources on winning moderate Republicans at the expense of the party’s working-class base, including union workers, who AP said were drawn to Trump’s vows to impose tariffs on friends and foes alike.
“In the coming months, our party will be doing a lot of introspection, lots of thinking,” said Democratic Rep. Shri Thanedar, whose district contains much of Detroit, saying her party focused more on Trump’s “character”.
Alexandra Rojas, executive director of the far-left Justice Democrats, said that the party’s leadership must “take responsibility for how a second Donald Trump presidency became possible again under their watch”.
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