Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., conceded Sunday that Democrats should view the 2024 election as a loss and reflect on what went wrong for the party after losing both elections. White House and the Senate and failing to flip the House of Representatives.
Schumer appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” where he was asked about Democratic strategist James Carville’s claim that the reason Democrats lost was because of “the economy, stupid.”
“I told my group, and I will say it here too. It was certainly a loss, but it is also a challenge,” Schumer said of the election.
Schumer said Democrats faced “severe headwinds” to win four of the seven contested Democratic Senate seats, though he conceded that “we’ve done some things wrong and we have to look in the mirror to see what we did wrong’.
Schumer said Democrats need to “look in the mirror” and think about what they did wrong after the 2024 election defeat. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, file)
President-elect Trump defeated Vice President Harris to win the White House, while Republicans flipped the Senate and retained a razor-thin majority in the House.
According to some political strategists, the state of the economy has led to President-elect Trump’s defeat of Vice President Harris. (Getty Images, File)
Shumer said, “There are some things we didn’t do that we should have done,” such as focusing on working families in America.
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Schumer said Democrats talked about the mechanisms and details of the legislation, although “didn’t show the kind of empathy or concern, or enough, for average working families.”
This failure left working families not realizing “how much we have done and how much we care for them,” the minority leader said.
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“What we’re going to do is spend time talking to working families and showing them how much we care for them,” Schumer said. “And don’t just talk about legislation, talk about the conditions that have so many working families worried about their future.”
