House Dem Slams Party’s Lack Of Reflection After Tuesday’s Loss | EUROtoday

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) is providing some actual discuss concerning the causes behind her get together’s defeat within the U.S. presidential election, and didn’t mince phrases when requested by The New York Times about her ideas on Vice President Kamala Harris’ marketing campaign.

The Democratic congresswoman ― who was reelected Tuesday by her rural and predominantly Republican constituency ― mentioned she has solely ever interacted with Harris as soon as, at a previous Christmas get together held on the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C.

“I noticed that almost all of the garlands were plastic,” she instructed the Times. “My district grows a hell of a lot of Christmas trees. I was strong-armed into taking a picture. I said, ‘Madam Vice President, we grow those where I live.’ She just walked away from me.”

“There was kind of an eye roll, maybe,” Gluesenkamp Perez continued. “My thinking was, it does matter to people where I live. It’s the respect, the cultural regard for farmers. I didn’t feel like she understood what I was trying to say.”

Gluesenkamp Perez argued that what she described as Harris’ dismissive response in the end factors towards the primary purpose her get together misplaced the election to Donald Trump.

“I was talking to a woman who runs one of the largest labor and delivery wards,” she instructed the Times. “She said 40 percent of the babies there have at least one parent addicted to fentanyl. What is empathetic — to tell them that’s their problem, or to take border security seriously?”

“People are putting their groceries on their credit card,” the congresswoman continued. “No one is listening to anything else you say if you try to talk them out of their lived experiences with data points from some economists.”

Trump gained the Electoral College, and is on monitor to win the favored vote, after working a racist marketing campaign centered on “blood thirsty” immigrants bringing “bad genes” into the nation. Gluesenkamp Perez has little religion, nonetheless, that Democrats will be taught from the loss.

She famous that it’s “a lot easier to look outward, to blame and demonize other people” as a substitute of performing some “painful” inside reflection concerning the state of the Democratic Party.

In the times for the reason that election, there has certainly been loads of finger-pointing from and amongst Democrats.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) blamed “Green [Party] dipshits” Thursday for withholding assist for Harris, whose pledges of dedication to Israel amid the continuing navy marketing campaign in Gaza had been a major challenge within the election, as many progressives tried to warn her.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), nonetheless, urged the identical kind of interior reflection that Gluesenkamp Perez is asking for, saying Wednesday that it’s “no great surprise” that the Democratic Party, “which has abandoned working class people,” would discover this identical demographic has “abandoned them.”

“First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well,” Sanders mentioned. “While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.”