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Comment on US Elections question: Bernie Sanders said that the Democrats abandoned the working class, and the working class abandoned them. How is this true?

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B1naryB0t@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Harris needed to get progressives and instead they put their efforts into winning over moderate conservatives. Even if she didn’t make concessions, putting time and effort into promoting that meant she didn’t have time or effort to put into the progressive voter base

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Yondoza@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Building a broad coalition without policy concessions was a waste of time? You’re going to have a tough time convincing me of that point.

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- Claidheamh@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I don’t think he needs to convince you of that. The results of your election are plain for all to see.
  
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- andrewrgross@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  What broad coalition?
  
  There was no coalition. It was a campaign by and for white college educated professional women in the suburbs.
  
  That’s not a coalition, that’s a book club.
  
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- Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Look at the numbers please:
  In 2020 Biden had 81,284,666 votes.
  In 2024 Kamala had 69,218,912 votes.
  
  That is a difference of around 12 Million votes or nearly 15%. Trump at the same time gained only like 750k votes. I mean yes, he somehow GAINED votes, but still…
  
  What is your supposed reason for those numbers?
  
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