A Democratic congressman from New York has blamed the “far left” for Donald Trump‘s presidential victory.
Congressman Ritchie Torres, who gained his incumbent seat in New York’s fifteenth congressional district on Tuesday with 76.6 p.c of the vote, took to X (previously Twitter) on November 6 to share his ideas on Trump’s win.
Torres wrote: “Donald Trump has no better buddy than the far left, which has managed to alienate historic numbers of Latinos, Blacks, Asians, and Jews from the Democratic Party with absurdities like ‘Defund the Police’ or ‘From the River to the Sea’ or ‘Latinx.'”
He continued: “There’s extra to lose than there’s to realize politically from pandering to a far left that’s extra consultant of Twitter, Twitch, and TikTok than it’s of the true world. The working class will not be shopping for the ivory-towered nonsense that the far left is promoting.”
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Torres is an outspoken critic of “the squad,” a bunch of Democratic representatives recognized for holding views to the left of the occasion, together with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar.
Varied exit polls discovered a surge in assist for Trump amongst Hispanic voters. Edison Analysis figures reported that Trump gained 46 p.c of the Hispanic vote, up from 32 p.c in 2020, Reuters reported. The identical ballot discovered that 13 p.c of Black voters supported Trump, up 1 p.c from the earlier election.
Working class voters additionally continued to assist Trump — he gained 66 p.c of the working vote, outperforming Democrats regardless of dropping one level amongst this group 2020, the Edison ballot discovered.
An NBC exit ballot discovered that amongst Asian American voters, 54 p.c selected Harris, whereas 38 p.c voted for Trump. The Edison ballot discovered that 21 p.c of Jewish voters picked Trump (the identical survey didn’t measure the Jewish vote in 2020, The Ahead reported).
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Squad members Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Greg Cesear, and Summer season Lee all gained again their incumbent seats on November 5, regardless of their states voting for Donald Trump general.
Nonetheless, two members of The Squad, Cory Bush and Jamaal Bowman, misplaced their primaries to Democratic challengers who disagreed with them on Center Japanese coverage.
Because the information of Trump’s win, progressives throughout the board have put forth their theories on why Kamala Harris and the Democratic occasion didn’t mobilize voters.
Former Democrats Andrew Yang and Bernie Sanders have additionally weighed in, blaming the shortage of a presidential major and a failure to deal with the considerations of working-class folks respectively.
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