Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., denounced the Democratic Party in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election.

The left-wing lawmaker, who is listed as a member of the Senate Democratic caucus, accused the party of abandoning the working class.

“It shouldn’t be a huge surprise that a Democratic Party that has failed the working class would find that the working class has failed them. First it was the white working class, and now it’s also Latino and black workers,” Sanders said. said in the statement.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks on the second day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 20, 2024. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

“While Democratic leaders defend the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they are right,” he continued.

Trump decisively defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, winning key swing states including Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.

Sanders characterized Harris’ campaign as “disastrous.”

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Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks on the second day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 20, 2024 (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

“Will the big money interests and highly paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign?” he asked.

“Will they understand the pain and political alienation that tens of millions of Americans are experiencing?” he added. “Do they have any idea how we can take on the increasingly powerful oligarchy that has so much economic and political power? Probably not.’

While Republicans won the Senate majority in the 2024 elections, the 83-year-old Sanders, who has served in the House since 2007, just won another six-year term.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a worker rally for Harris-Walz in Harrisburg, Penn., on Oct. 27, 2024. (Nathan Morris/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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“Unbelievably, real inflation-adjusted weekly wages for the average American worker are actually lower now than they were 50 years ago,” he said in the statement. “Despite an explosion of technology and labor productivity, many young people today will have a worse standard of living than their parents.”

“Despite spending far more per capita than other countries, today we are still the only wealthy country that does not guarantee health care as a human right for all and we pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. We alone among the big countries cannot even guarantee paid family and medical leave,” he claimed.

“Today, despite strong opposition from a majority of Americans, we continue to spend billions to finance the extremist Netanyahu government’s all-out war against the Palestinian people, which has led to the horrific humanitarian disaster of mass malnutrition and starvation of thousands of children.” senator stated in the statement.

Sanders noted in a tweet this week that he was “proud” to vote for Harris.