Original Blog Entry: Senator Bernie Sanders

emilyg — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 01:05:26 GMT

Senator Bernie Sanders says he's ready to work with President-elect Donald Trump to crack down on corporate greed, but won't give an inch on bigotry. Democrats lost because they ignored the plight of workers and must address that to recover, Sanders said.

Sanders, who mounted a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination but lost out to Hillary Clinton, is on a whirlwind tour of Washington, DC this week, promoting his new book, Our Revolution. On Wednesday, the Senate Democrats appointed him Chair of Outreach, seeking to repair the party still reeling from last week's defeat in the general election.

Donald Trump won the election for a number of reasons. But one of the reasons that he won is, in my view, the failure of the Democratic Party that must be rectified, Sanders told a rally outside the US Capitol on Thursday.

While Trump recognized that there are millions of people today working-class people, middle-class people, low-income people who are living in despair and turning to alcohol, drugs and suicide, the Democrats did not, Sanders argued.

Facts are facts. When you lose the White House to the least popular candidate in history of America, when you lose the Senate, when you lose the House, and when two-thirds of governors in this country are Republicans, it is time for a new direction for the Democratic Party, said the independent

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