Obama Strategist David Axelrod Reveals Democrats’ Biggest Problem as He Claims the Party Has Become a Party of ‘Suburban, College-Educated Smarties’
Barack Obama’s former chief strategist warned that the Democratic Party was losing the working class by becoming a “smart, suburban, college-educated party” after Kamala Harris’ defeat in Tuesday’s presidential election.
Speaking to CNN’s Anderson Cooper, David Axelrod, a contributor to the news channel, elaborated on why he believed Democrats lost to Republican Donald Trump, noting that he was “concerned about the way the Democratic Party relates to working class voters on this issue. country’.
While discussing the decline in the number of working-class Democratic voters, Axelrod explained how the only group the political party won in elections were “white college students” who “make over a hundred thousand dollars a year.”
“You can’t win national elections that way and that certainly shouldn’t be the case for a party that profiles itself as the party of working people.”
He also advised that “you cannot approach working people as missionaries and say, ‘We are here to help you become more like us.’ There’s a kind of unspoken contempt, unintentional contempt in that.’
Barack Obama’s former chief strategist David Axelrod warned that the Democratic party was losing the working class by becoming a “smart, suburban college education party.”
Vice President Kamala Harris delivers her concession speech at Howard University after losing to former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election
Axelrod, however, praised President Joe Biden’s efforts, stating that he has “done good things programmatically for working people” but highlighting how the Democratic party itself “has increasingly become a smart, suburban, college-educated party and lends itself to the kind of reaction we’ve seen’.
The CNN contributor spoke earlier this week about how “racism and sexism” had played a role in the vice president’s stunning defeat.
“Let’s be absolutely blunt about it,” he said. “There was a call for racism in this campaign, and there is racial prejudice in this country, and there is sexism in this country, and anyone who thinks that in any way affected the outcome of this race is wrong.” .’
He added, “I’m not saying this was the main reason Kamala Harris lost and Donald Trump won.”
Axelrod’s comments come as Harris’ campaign boss was last night questioned for “personally” misjudging the election after the Democratic presidential candidate conceded election defeat to Donald Trump.
Speaking on CNN, Harris campaign co-chairman Roberto Garcia was questioned by host Jake Tapper about why the Democratic party lost votes from Latino men to Trump.
Garcia confirmed that Harris “won the Latino vote overall,” but admitted that Democrats had “a lot of work to do with Latino men” after this week’s election results.
President-elect Trump made an astonishing political comeback after being supported by 46 percent of all Latino voters – the most of any Republican in modern history.
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump takes the stage to address supporters during his rally at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., November 6, 2024
