Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., acknowledged Sunday that Democrats should view the 2024 election as a loss and reflect on what went wrong for the party after losing both The White House The Senate and the failure to overturn the House of Representatives.
Schumer appeared on NBC's “Meet the Press,” where he was asked about Democratic strategist James Carville's assertion that the reason Democrats lost is because “economy, stupid.”
“I've told my caucus, and I'll say it here as well… Certainly it was a loss, but it's 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 acknowledged “we did some things wrong and we have to look in the mirror and see what we did wrong.”
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Schumer said Democrats should “look in the mirror” and reflect on the mistakes they made after losing the 2024 election. (AP Photo/Maryam Zohaib, File)
President-elect Trump He defeated Vice President Harris to win the White House, while Republicans flipped the Senate and retained a slim majority in the House.
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“There are some things we didn't do that we should have done,” Schumer said, such as focusing on them Working families In America.
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Schumer said that Democrats talked about mechanisms and Legislation details, Although he “did not show that kind of compassion or concern, or enough of it, for the average working family.”
The minority leader said this failure made working families “not realize how much we have done and how much we care about them.”
“What we're going to do is spend some time talking to working families, showing them how much we care about them,” Schumer said. “And we're not just talking about legislation, we're talking about the conditions that have made a lot of working families anxious about their future.”
