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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., admitted Sunday that Democrats should consider the 2024 election a loss and reflect on what went wrong for the party after losing White House and the Senate and not being able to overturn the House of Representatives.
Schumer appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” where she was asked about Democratic strategist James Carville’s claim that the reason Democrats lost was because “the economy, stupid”.
“I told my caucus, and I’ll say it here as well, … it was certainly a loss, but it’s also a challenge,” Schumer said of the election.
Schumer said Democrats faced “headwinds” in winning four of the seven Democratic Senate seats up for grabs, though he admitted that “we’ve done some things wrong and we have to look in the mirror and see what we’ve done bad”.
Schumer said Democrats need to “look in the mirror” and reflect on what they did wrong after losing the 2024 election. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)
President-elect Trump defeated Vice President Harris to win the White House, while Republicans swept the Senate and held a very slim majority in the House.
The state of the economy led President-elect Trump to beat Vice President Harris, according to some political strategists. (Getty Images, file)
Shumer said “there are some things we didn’t do that we should have done,” like focus working families in America
Schumer said Democrats talked about the mechanics and details of legislation, although he “didn’t show the kind of empathy or concern, or enough, for average working families.”
That failure left working families “not realizing how much we’ve done and how much we care for them,” the minority leader said.
“What we’re going to do is spend time talking to working families, showing them how much we care about them,” Schumer said. “And not just talk about legislation, but talk about the conditions that have caused so many working families to worry about their future.”
