Vice President Kamala Harris lost big to President-elect Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, but if the 2028 election was held today.

Figures in the party who speak on behalf of America’s workers – like Senator Chris Murphy – are few. In the wake of Trump’s victory, they need to be heard.

As Democrats try to figure out why the country lurched so dramatically toward Republican candidates in this year’s election, one congressman’s analysis of what went wrong has garnered particular attention — and backlash. Representative Seth Moulton, a Democrat from Massachusetts, says his party faltered because it’s not willing to have debates on issues that Americans care about, including whether transgender girls should be allowed to participate in girls’ sports.

On Sept. 8, 2021, President Biden told a room full of labor leaders, workers, and government officials that he intended “to be the most pro-union president leading the most pro-union administration in American history.”

It turns out it’s Democrats who moved away from the mainstream of American thought, leaving Republicans closer to the center and more relatable to voters.

By Katie GlueckIn Ohio, Sen. Sherrod Brown, a longtime champion of working-class voters, was toppled by a rich Republican former car dealer.In Washington, President Joe Biden — who won the Democratic nomination four years ago with the help of blue-collar voters — must now hand back power to Republicans and surrender leadership of a party increasingly dominated by highly educated voters.And in Pennsylvania, Sen. Bob Casey, whose family name has for years been synonymous with white working-class D

In scores of interviews throughout 2024, Latino, Black and Asian American voters, many of whom voted for Donald Trump, said they no longer trusted Democrats to improve the economy.

There’s no single reason Kamala Harris lost the election. But as the dust settles, it seems that one of Harris’s weaknesses—surely the most ironic of them—was that voters kinda thought sh…