Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he believes the Democrats lost the 2024 elections because Americans “didn’t realize how much” the party had done for them.
Sen. Schumer was appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Jan. 5 when he was quizzed on a range of topics including the forthcoming Donald Trump administration. He was also questioned on the reasons for his party’s overwhelming defeat following remarks by Democrat strategist James Carville, who said the party had lost due to its poor handling of the economy.
Schumer disagreed with Carville’s analysis, and adding that the Democrats had failed to connect with “working families” due to a focus on the technicalities of lawmaking.
“We did a lot of good things, but all too often, we talked about the mechanics of the legislation and the details of the legislation, and we really didn’t show the kind of empathy and concern to average working families who didn’t realize how much we had done, and how much we cared for them.
Many on social media were skeptical of Schumer’s reasoning as to why the Democrats lost the election.
Others said how they felt worse off under the Democrats than they did the GOP.
