The message being sent to Democratic Party leadership in the hours after voters propelled Donald Trump to a second White House term has been clear, a political reporter said on CNN: “Burn it all down.”
The bleak message to party leaders soul-searching after Tuesday night’s bruising defeat came Friday evening during a discussion on CNN’s “The Situation Room” revolving around Nancy Pelosi’s statement in which she blamed Biden for not bowing out of the race sooner.
Scott Jennings, a GOP insider, piled on the finger-pointing by telling host Wolf Blitzer that the Democrats have “no one to blame but themselves for constructing a charade around Joe Biden.”
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But Jasmine Wright, a NOTUS reporter, said the Democrats' failed to break through to working-class voters or connect with people struggling economically and with border issues, while paying "too much attention" to higher-educated people.
“So, I think that there's thoughts about, they are not just not talking to people based on race or gender, but certainly not talking to people based on class, and the differences in their educational experience, the differences in what they do,” she said. “The folks who I’ve been talking to in the last 48, 72 hours, really say that the Democratic Party should burn it all down and think about reimagining itself and who it aims to reach out to and the messages that they try to use to reach those voters.”
“I think there’s a lot of truth to that,” said Democratic strategist Maria Cardona. “There’s no question that the Democratic Party needs to go back to our roots.”
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