Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday that voters “don’t understand” how much Democrats have done for them over the past four years heading into the November election. , claimed that the Democratic Party played a key role in the collapse.
President-elect Donald Trump scored a historic victory for the Republican Party in November, winning both the Electoral College and the popular vote, but Vice President Kamala Harris won even the numbers that President Joe Biden won in 2020. It didn’t come close. NBC host Kristen Welker asked Schumer for his thoughts on the “root cause” of the Democratic defeat, which Democratic strategist James Carville blamed on the state of the economy. Under the Biden-Harris administration.
“I said it to my caucus, and I’ll say it here: We need to think about this election. It was certainly a loss, but it was also a challenge, and we faced very tough headwinds. We did some things right. We kept 4 of the 7 contested Democratic seats, but we did some things wrong, so we looked in the mirror and saw what we did wrong. We need to see if that’s the case,” Schumer said.
“Then there are some things we should have done that we didn’t do. One of the things we have to do is we have to focus on America’s working families,” Schumer said. added. “We believe in them and we passed all kinds of bills to help them, including an infrastructure bill that strengthens our economy and puts a lot of people in jobs.”
After Harris lost to Trump, Democratic lawmakers and political commentators questioned the potential backlash against her party among voters. (Related: Kamala Harris fails the Oath of Allegiance near inauguration)
The election results are a serious blow to Democratic Party control over some voters, as not only did Trump receive 2.5 million more votes than in 2020, but Harris received 7 million fewer votes than Biden in the 2020 race. showed that it was given. According to In the New York Times. The vice president may have found some counties that matched or exceeded Biden’s vote total, but he fell short of Trump’s vote total in three of seven key battleground states and 80% of the nation’s counties. It didn’t come close.
Schumer went on to introduce the CHIPS Plus Act, a bill that includes $52 billion for semiconductor manufacturing through 2025, $200 billion for federal science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) research, and tax credits for U.S. semiconductor manufacturing. He listed how he helped push the Democratic Party forward in 2022. . The Democratic Senate Majority Leader also noted that his party is pushing to lower the cost of prescription drugs, which Biden advocated during his 2024 campaign.
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The congressman went on to admit to Welker that Democrats had failed to show “empathy and concern” while voters “didn’t understand” how the party cared for them, and that the area was He said this is an area the Democratic Party will focus on going forward.
“But, Kristen, we frequently talked about how the bill worked and the details of the bill, and we never showed any average empathy or interest, or how it would be done. We also didn’t do enough to show average working families who don’t understand how much we’ve done and how much we care about them,” Schumer continued.
“So what we’re trying to do is spend a lot of time talking to working families and showing them how much we care about them, and not just talking about the law. And to talk about a situation that is making so many working families feel uncertain about their future,” Schumer said. “This is a big change and it’s definitely going to make a difference.”
After Biden announced he would withdraw from the 2024 presidential race and instead endorse Harris in July 2024, some Democrats questioned whether the party would hold a primary. Key figures such as former President Barack Obama initially withheld support for the vice president. But despite never winning any delegates, Harris won enough support from Democratic National Convention (DNC) delegates two days after Biden withdrew from the race, and the party’s He became the presumptive presidential candidate.
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