Where do the Democrats go from here? – podcast

“This was a pretty sweeping victory for Trump,” Lauren Gambino, political correspondent for Guardian US, tells Michael Safi. “It was decisive, and he may very well end up with full control of Congress, which would really help him implement some of these pretty dramatic proposals he’s laid out throughout the campaign.”

Speaking to Democrats processing the result, Gambino says there is a sense of devastation.

“Some of them are calling for a full overhaul of their brand. Bernie Sanders has said they’re no longer the party of the working class.”

Safi also reports from Kamala Harris’s concession speech at Howard University, Washington DC. He speaks to Harris supporters reflecting on what went wrong, and asking: what next?

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