Sen. Bernie Sanders offered a brutal assessment of why former Vice President Kamala Harris lost to President Donald Trump in the 2024 election.
On CNN’s State of the Union Sunday, host Dana Bash played a clip of Sanders’ remarks during a stop in Wheeling, Wyoming, for the Vermont senator’s “Fighting Oligarchy” tour.
“One of the reasons, in my view, that Kamala Harris lost this election is she had too many billionaires telling her not to stand up for the working class of this country,” he told the crowd Wednesday.
“Ouch,” Bash said.
Sanders then doubled down on his remarks in Wyoming.
“I like Kamala, she’s a friend of mine,” Sanders said on CNN Sunday. “But her core consultants, you know, were very influenced by wealthy people.”
Sanders claimed that Harris’ campaign had been “vague