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

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

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, a former senior adviser to

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during his presidency, on Thursday said Democrats have “become a smarty-pants, suburban, college-educated party” ― and that led to

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’ defeat in the White House race.

Many pundits have been

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in the aftermath of the 2024 election. But analysis from Axelrod, a strategist who successfully helped engineer both of Obama’s national campaigns, merits attention.

“I do have concerns about the way the Democratic Party relates to working-class voters in this country,” Axelrod told broadcaster Anderson Cooper on CNN. “The

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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 home a point about the more affluent income bracket that Harris appealed to.

“The only group … Democrats won among were people who make more

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,” Axelrod said. “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 suggested snobbery played a part in Democrats’ ******* messaging after President Joe Biden had helped working people.

“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 said.

“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 campaign co-chair,

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Axelrod’s point in a separate conversation on CNN.

“There’s a lot of work to do to ensure that we communicate to folks that the

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is the party of working people, is the party that supports immigrants, is the party that supports the social safety net,” Garcia said.

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