Mitt Romney says Dems lost their base thanks to Bernie and Liz Warren: I dont know how they recover
Retiring Sen.Mitt Romney is eviscerating Democrats for hemorrhaging its working-class base and faulted staunch progressives and “woke scolds” for the exodus.The outgoing Utah senator credited President-elect Donald Trump for remaking the GOP into the party of the working class and predicted that both parties are heading for a recalibration of their policies.
“Democrats pushed them out,” Romney, 77, told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.“The Bernie Sanders-Elizabeth Warren faction of the Democratic Party, with some of this defund the police … and biological males in women’s sports — these things had a lot of people in the working class just flee the Democrat Party.”Last month, Trump, 78, became the first Republican to win the popular vote for the presidency in two decades.
The president-elect also notched the most robust support from minority voters of a Republican in decades.Many in the party’s progressive wing have faulted the Dems for shifting more to the center in the 2024 cycle and for not nominating populist Sen.
Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) as the standard bearer in 2016.“One of the challenges in my party is that our policies do not necessarily line up with the interests of our voters.
And so there’ll be some reorientation,” Romney said of the GOP.“The Democrat Party’s the one in trouble.I mean, I don’t know how they recover,” he went on.
“They’ve lost their base — union guys and gals have left … the Democratic Party is seen not as rich people but as college professors and woke scolds.”Vice President Kamala Harris had seemingly abandoned many of her lefty positions from the 2020 cycle such as banning fracking, decriminalizing illegal border crossings and Medicare for All.She also worked to court Republican voters by spotlighting support from party turncoats like former Rep.
Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.).Ultimately, Trump swept all seven battleground states.
“The Democrats have badly misread the direction of the co...