Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said Sunday that Democrats see the 2024 election as a defeat, with the party losing both the White House and the Senate and failing to flip the House. He acknowledged that he should reflect on what he did wrong.
Schumer appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and was asked about Democratic strategist James Carville’s claim that the Democratic Party’s loss was because of “the economy, stupid people.”
“I said it to my caucus and I’ll say it here again… It’s certainly a loss, but it’s also a challenge,” Schumer said of the election.
Schumer said Democrats face “tough headwinds” to win four of the seven Democratic Senate seats contested, but added, “We did some things wrong. We need to look in the mirror. We need to look at what we did wrong.”
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Schumer said Democrats need to “look in the mirror” and reflect on what they did wrong following their 2024 election loss. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)
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“There are some things we should have done that we didn’t do,” Schumer said, such as focusing on America’s working families.
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Schumer said Democrats talked about the mechanics and details of the bill, but “didn’t show any kind of empathy or concern or enough empathy for average working families.”
The failure left working families “not understanding how much we’ve done and how much we care about them,” the minority leader said.
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“What we’re trying to do is take the time to talk to working families and show them how much we care about them,” Schumer said. “And not just talk about the law, but talk about the conditions that make so many working families worry about their future.”
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