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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer offered some words of comfort after Democrats lost not only the White House but also their Senate majority.
"Now, to my fellow Democrats across America, it's natural and appropriate to feel deep disappointment, grief, and even anger in this moment," he said during his floor speech opening the Senate business week. "I understand those feelings. It never feels good to come up short, but when you do, you get up, you dust yourself off, you learn, and prepare to do better in the future."
But it was hard for Democrats to not feel the sting. Throughout the day, new Republican senators-elect roamed around the halls of the Capitol for their orientation. House Speaker Mike Johnson, who looks likely to hold onto his job as Republican chances of keeping the House grow, intimated that president-elect Trump might visit the Hill on Wednesday as he comes to Washington to meet with President Joe Biden.
Some Democrats like Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut have said that a lack of focus on the working class caused Democrats to collapse, including among their base voters.
"I think it's got to be a more aggressively economically populist party that doesn't shy away from naming who has too much power," Murphy told The Independent.
This echoes what Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has said when it comes to the Democratic Party's need to refocus on the working class. The Democrats collapsed not only among white working-class voters, but also with the Latino working class.
"We focus our efforts, we focus our discussions, we focus on the dignity of work," Senator Sherrod Brown, who lost to Senator-elect Bernie Moreno in Ohio, told The Independent.
"I ran eight points ahead of the ticket because I do," he said. "It's respecting work. It's keeping that focus, and the national Democratic brand doesn't do that enough."
Right next to him was Senator Tina Smith from Minnesota, who cautioned against any simplistic solutions.
"For every complicated question, there's an easy answer that's almost always wrong," she told The Independent. "We lost, and we need to do better."
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