The chair of the Democratic National Committee has had it with the President Joe Biden blame game, he made clear Thursday.
"This is straight up BS," Jaime Harrison wrote on X Thursday afternoon. "Biden was the most-pro worker President of my lifetime."
Harrison was responding to the bitter condemnation Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) hurled at the Democratic Party after President-elect Donald Trump trounced Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.
Sanders argued on Nov. 6 in a public statement that the Democratic Party had abandoned working-class, Latino and Black voters who struggle to make ends meet as liberal leaders kowtowed to wealthy donors and blew cash on over-paid experts.
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"Will the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign?" Sanders asked.
"Do they have any ideas as to how we can take on the increasingly powerful Oligarchy which has so much economic and political power? Probably not."
On Thursday, Harrison — a former coal lobbyist who earned millions representing business entities such as Walmart — defended Biden's reputation as a working American's president and Harris' policy platform as progressive.
He cited Biden's jobs record, historic picket line appearance and $36 billion investment in union pensions as proof.
"[Biden] saved Union pensions, created millions of good paying jobs and even marched in a picket line," wrote Harrison. "Some of [Harris'] plans would have fundamentally transformed the quality of life and closed the racial wealth gap for working people across this country.
"There are a lot of post election takes and this one ain’t a good one."
Sanders is not alone in his frustration that Harris — a former prosecutor running against a convicted felon who has urged for violence against protesters, women, immigrants, political enemies and the press — was unable to claim the White House for her party.
Democrat Andrew Yang argued Biden should have stepped aside before primary season began, which he argued would have given Harris more time to mount her campaign.