{"id":125,"date":"2024-11-11T07:18:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T07:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/dnc-chair-hits-back-at-sanders-over-party-criticism-straight-up-bs\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T13:40:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T13:40:02","slug":"dnc-chair-hits-back-at-sanders-over-party-criticism-straight-up-bs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/dnc-chair-hits-back-at-sanders-over-party-criticism-straight-up-bs\/","title":{"rendered":"<div>DNC chair hits back at Sanders over party criticism: &#8216;Straight up BS&#8217;<\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>DNC Chair Jaime Harrison hit back at Sen. Bernie Sanders\u2019 claim that the Democratic Party has \u201cabandoned working-class people\u201d as \u201cstraight up BS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is straight up BS \u2026 Biden was the most-pro worker President of my life time \u2014 saved Union pensions, created millions of good paying jobs and even marched in a picket line and some of MVP\u2019s plans would have fundamentally transformed the quality of life and closed the racial wealth gap for working people across this country,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/harrisonjaime\/status\/1854537146830348292\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harrison wrote on X<\/a> Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of post election takes and this one ain\u2019t a good one,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Harrison\u2019s remarks come after the progressive senator and former presidential primary candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/06\/2024-election-results-live-coverage-updates-analysis\/bernie-sanders-election-response-00187980\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed the Democratic Party \u201cdefends the status quo\u201d<\/a> after Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 resounding loss to Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign?\u201d Sanders, a Vermont independent who caucuses with Democrats, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BernieSanders\/status\/1854271157135941698\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in a statement Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNC Chair Jaime Harrison hit back at Sen. Bernie Sanders\u2019 claim that the Democratic Party has \u201cabandoned working-class people\u201d as \u201cstraight up BS.\u201d \u201cThis is straight up BS \u2026 Biden was the most-pro worker President of my life time \u2014 saved Union pensions, created millions of good paying jobs and even marched in a picket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}