Ex-Obama Adviser Snidely Boils Down Harris Defeat To 1 Faction Of Democratic Party | EUROtoday

David Axelrod, a former senior adviser to Barack Obama throughout his presidency, on Thursday mentioned Democrats have “become a smarty-pants, suburban, college-educated party” ― and that led to Kamala Harris’ defeat within the White House race.

Many pundits have been upping their blame recreation within the aftermath of the 2024 election. But evaluation from Axelrod, a strategist who efficiently helped engineer each of Obama’s nationwide campaigns, deserves consideration.

“I do have concerns about the way the Democratic Party relates to working-class voters in this country,” Axelrod instructed broadcaster Anderson Cooper on CNN. “The only group that Democrats gained with in the election on Tuesday was white college graduates. And among working-class voters, there was a significant decline.”

He continued to hammer dwelling a degree in regards to the extra prosperous revenue bracket that Harris appealed to.

“The only group … Democrats won among were people who make more than $100,000 a year,” Axelrod mentioned. “You can’t win national elections that way, and it certainly shouldn’t be that way for a party that fashions itself as the party of working people.”

Axelrod instructed snobbery performed an element in Democrats’ failed messaging after President Joe Biden had helped working folks.

“You can’t approach working people like missionaries and say, ‘We’re here to help you become more like us.’ There’s a kind of unspoken disdain, unintended disdain in that,” he mentioned.

“I think Biden has done programmatically some good things for working people. But the party itself has increasingly become a smarty-pants, suburban, college-educated party, and it lends itself to the kind of backlash that we’ve seen.”

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.), a Harris marketing campaign co-chair, considerably echoed Axelrod’s level in a separate dialog on CNN.

“There’s a lot of work to do to ensure that we communicate to folks that the Democratic Party is the party of working people, is the party that supports immigrants, is the party that supports the social safety net,” Garcia mentioned.