Schumer says Democrats need to ‘look in the mirror’ after losing election

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., acknowledged Sunday that Democrats should consider the 2024 election a loss and reflect on what went wrong for the party after losing both The white house and the Senate and the failure to change the House of Representatives.

Schumer appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” where he was asked about Democratic strategist James Carville’s claim that the reason Democrats lost was because of “economy, stupid.”

“I told my caucus, and I’ll say it here, … certainly it was a loss, but it’s also a challenge,” Schumer said of the election.

Schumer said Democrats faced “serious headwinds” to win four of the seven Democratic Senate seats up for grabs, though he acknowledged that “we’ve done some things wrong and we have to look in the mirror and see what we did wrong.”

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President-elect Trump defeated Vice President Harris and won the White House, while the Republicans flipped the Senate and held a razor-thin majority in the House.

Shumer said “there are some things we didn’t do that we should have done,” like focusing on them working families in America.

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Schumer said Democrats talked about mechanics and details of the law, though “he didn’t show the kind of empathy or concern, or enough of it, for average working-class families.”

Because of this failure, working families did not “realize how much we have done and how much we care about them,” the minority leader said.

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“What we’re going to do is spend time talking to working families, showing them how much we care about them,” Schumer said. “And not just about legislation, but about conditions that have many working families worried about their future.”