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'Straight-up BS': Democratic chair attacks Bernie Sanders' election critique. Sanders' analysis that Democrats lost because they failed working-class voters scorned by party chair Jaime Harrison.

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Sanders’ analysis that Democrats lost because they failed working-class voters scorned by party chair Jaime Harrison

‘Straight-up BS’: Democratic chair attacks Bernie Sanders’ election critique

Amid Democratic mourning over the loss of the presidential election to Donald Trump, the party chair risked deepening already growing divisions by rebuking the leftwing Vermont senator Bernie Sanders for saying Democrats have “abandoned working class people”.

“This is straight up BS,” Jaime Harrison, the Democratic National Committee chair, said on Thursday. “[Joe] Biden was the most pro-worker president of my lifetime – saved union pensions, created millions of good paying jobs and even marched in a picket line.”

Harrison also defended Kamala Harris, the vice-president who lost the election to Trump, for proposing policies that “would have fundamentally transformed the quality of life and closed the racial wealth gap for working people across this country”.

He said: “From the child tax credits, to [$]25k for a down payment for a house to Medicare covering the cost of senior healthcare in their homes. There are a lot of post-election takes and this one ain’t a good one.”

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Straight-up BS’: Democratic chair attacks Bernie Sanders’ election critique | Sanders’ analysis that Democrats lost because they failed working-class voters scorned by party chair Jaime Harrison

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  • Forgive me if I am incorrect, but didn't Biden end the Child Tax Credits as part of his "Everything's Fine Now" policy?

    • I think so, and this dork's analysis is consistent with that since the dems keep trying to claim credit for programs that helped people years ago, which they ended, as though anyone remembers or gives a shit when they're struggling now.

    • They didn't technically 'end it', they let it expire, but functionally yes. They let Joe Manchin (remember that boogeyman) 'air concerns' and act as the scapegoat for letting it end.

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