Bernie Sanders Calls for Major Changes in Democratic Party

After the Democratic Party posted losses during the 2024 election, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called for a realignment of sorts within the Democratic coalition to focus on “working class people.” On Wednesday, the longtime senator released a lengthy statement and didn’t mince words in his criticism of the party. Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Democrats in the Senate, accused Democrats of “[abandoning] working class people” and said that because of that, “the working class has abandoned them.” “First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well,” said Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist who ran in 2016 and 2020 in the Democratic Party’s primaries for president....