Bernie Sanders doesn’t seem to regret the potential loss of respect for Nancy Pelosi Sunday morning on Meet the Press. Sanders repeated his post-election claim that the Democratic Party “abandoned the working class,” telling host Christine Welker: “Look, the workers of this country are very angry. “They have a right to be angry.”
Welker showed Sanders a clip of Pelosi, emphasizing his disappointment in her statement. “Bernie Sanders didn’t win; let me, with all due respect, and I have great respect for him, for what he stands for, but I don’t respect him when he says that the Democratic Party has abandoned working-class families,” Pelosi said.
Sanders began by saying: “Well, Nancy is a friend of mine, and we’ve worked together on many issues.” “But here’s the truth I have to tell Nancy. In the Senate, in the last two years, we haven’t even introduced legislation to raise the minimum wage to a living wage, even though about 20 million people in this country work for less than $15 an hour.
“We’re not talking about defined benefit retirement plans so that our seniors can retire safely. We’re not talking about raising the cap on Social Security in order to expand the solvency of Social Security and increase benefits,” he said. “Simply put, if you’re an average working person, do you really think the Democratic Party is going to attack powerful special interests and fight for you? “I think the overwhelming answer is no, and that’s what needs to change.”
Sanders also insisted that President Biden bears much of the blame for Kamala Harris’ loss on Tuesday. Biden said he would “be the most progressive president since Franklin D. Roosevelt” before he was elected, and “the agenda he pushed was very strong,” but it wasn’t enough.
“But that agenda has to be contextualized within the broader context of American society today,” Sanders added. “And that American society today is one in which tens of millions of working families and seniors are struggling, while the people at the top have never had it so good.”
You can watch the interview with Senator Sanders in the video above.
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