Al Sharpton Knocks Dems For ‘Acting Like There Was a Landslide Against’ the Party After Trump Win: ‘That’s Not True!’
MSNBC’s Al Sharpton knocked critics saying there was a “landslide” against Democrats in the 2024 presidential election.
On Wednesday’s Morning Joe, Sharpton reacted to a Washington Post op-ed from Rahm Emanuel, former Chicago mayor and current ambassador to Japan, in which Emanuel accused Democrats of missing “the moment.” Emanuel called November “jarring” for his party in light of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory.
“The Democratic Party has been blind to the rising sea of disillusionment. In today’s America, aspiration and ambition have been supplanted by anger and animosity. Talk about missing the moment,” Emanuel wrote.
Sharpton only agreed in part, pushing back against the idea that voters have largely turned away from the Democratic Party, praising President Joe Biden as the most successful president in his lifetime in terms of civil rights and insisting he “stabilized” the economy.
He argued:
I agree in part. I think I would not say jarring because let’s remember the Democrats only lost by less than 2%. We keep acting like there was landslide against the Democrats. That’s not true. I think that Rahm was right that had there been more emphasis and more projection on the pain that people are feeling, they would have edged that 1.5% and won the election. And they could have identified that a lot of the reason you are hurting is the guy that succeeded Barack Obama and Joe Biden who did nothing about some of the issues that you are talking about, in fact, coddled some of the people that benefited and never paid in terms of the economy collapsing when it did under the last days of George Bush and I think that Joe Biden had a lot that he could show that was not being pushed out. I think those that were trying to say he’s too old, get out were putting out the accomplishments. Joe Biden really stabilized the economy. He was the most consequential civil rights president in my lifetime.
Sharpton heaped more praise on Biden for his appointment of Black women to major positions, including the Supreme Court and vice president. He argued Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign should have focused more on Biden’s accomplishments.
“He’s put more Blacks on the bench than any president. He’s been — he put a Black woman as vice president, a black woman in the supreme court, and more black federal judges,” Sharpton said. “I mean, but they were not talking about that. They were talking about identity politics that didn’t matter rather than what did matter, so I think Rahm is right, there should have been more emphasis on what they did and more targeting of what Donald Trump would not do and did not do as president.”
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