The top Democrat made a stunning admission that the Republican Party had a reputation among the working class

The vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has stated that Republicans are now seen as the party that best represents the working class.

The not-so-proud proclamation came from Vice Chairman Ken Martin Friday, during what amounted to stripping his own party on The Lead with Jake Tapper.

There, the 51-year-old chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party pointed to complacency within the progressive party while citing research showing the changing tide.

He told Tapper: “For the first time, the majority of Americans believe that the Republican Party best represents the interests of the working class and the poor.”

“And the Democratic Party represents the interests of the wealthy and the elite.”

“That is a damning indictment of our party brand,” he continued. “And that’s something we’ll have to figure out as we move forward.

“How do we actually reconnect our very popular policy ideas that are being passed across the country through ballot initiatives to our party and candidates,” he pondered, before finally concluding: ‘Because that doesn’t happen.

“We cared about doing better there.”

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DNC Vice Chairman Ken Martin, who is also chairman of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, has said that Republicans are now seen as the party that best represents the working class.

He said this on Friday to The Lead with Jake Tapper. during what amounted to the undressing of his own party

The confession was significant because it openly admitted that the president-elect’s campaign ultimately resonated with the working class.

The demographic has long been associated with the Democratic Party, which has been based on liberal reforms and working-class interests for much of the past century.

However, as Martin pointed out, the party’s union element has been shrinking since the 1970s—which itself was just a few years after the parties’ core bases experienced a shift that turned northeastern states more reliably blue.

Decades later, during the presidencies of Barack Obama and Joe Biden, the party would become more associated with a progressive economic agenda that included elements of socialism, and more progressive views on cultural and social issues.

This political climate materialized in a big way this month, though probably not in the way most members of Martin’s party expected.

Months after Kamala Harris was installed as a last-minute replacement, voters turned out overwhelmingly for Trump — many from places and demographics that had voted for Biden just four years earlier.

Four years of inflation and a yet-to-be-resolved border crisis were seen as driving factors, as political pundits on both sides of the aisle realized, seemingly in real time, how bipartisan politics were partly to blame for the crisis. result.

“I’m going to speak some hard truths to my friends in the Democratic Party,” CNN’s Julie Roginsky said on air, two days after Trump received enough electoral votes to be named the next president.

The confession was significant because it openly admitted that the president-elect’s campaign ultimately resonated with the working class.

Álvaro J. Corral of the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley, added of the result: “I think this is really a story of the headwinds that were clearly too much to overcome structurally (and) with the economy for the Democrats ‘

The president-elect emphatically defeated Kamala Harris and was supported by 46 percent of all Latino voters – the most of any Republican in modern history

“This is not Joe Biden’s fault. “It’s not Kamala Harris’ fault,” she continued. ‘It’s not Barack Obama’s fault. It is the Democratic Party’s fault for not knowing how to communicate effectively with voters.

“We are not the party of common sense,” she continued. “(This) is the message the voters have sent us.”

Álvaro J. Corral of the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley, added of the result: “I think this is really a story of the headwinds that were clearly too much to overcome structurally (and) with the economy for the Democrats ‘.

Other examples of on-air backlash have been seen – although more often than not, personalities like Joy Reid have chosen to use their platform to point fingers on-air – often at the expense of members of their own party.

A week after the election, Reid launched into a tirade that appeared to rebuke Latinos who voted for Trump. Days earlier, Republicans had captured 46 percent of the entire demographic group — the most of any Republican in modern history.

“While 91 percent of black women voted for (Harris), a total of 53 percent of white women voted for Trump,” an unrepentant Reid began, as both MSNBC and CNN have suffered from sub-par ratings in recent weeks.

“(This is) despite the open disrespect and demonization of JD Vance and the Supreme Court stripping women’s bodily autonomy, courtesy of Donald Trump.

“Latino men, who – despite the total disrespect Trump has shown and his promise to deport some of your mixed-status mixed-race families – most of them have voted by a 55 percent majority to let the deportations take place,” she added.

Factors like Harris and Joe Biden’s policies around the border are believed to be to blame for Trump’s victory, turning states that previously went to the Democrats red.

Martin said Friday that Democrats should take time in the coming months to rebuild the party, prioritizing “race(s) in every zip code.”

He seemed to suggest that Democrats have fallen out of touch over the years, after once being the working-class-centric party.

Speaking to Latino men who voted directly for Trump, the ReidOut starter said, “So you (better) own everything that happens from here on out with your mixed-status families and with your wives, sisters, and abuelas. ‘

The warning was almost immediately criticized by progressive politicians, who chided Reid for seemingly creating more infighting in an already divided party.

“Stop scapegoating, shaming and shaming working-class Latinos.” Representative Ritchie Torres, the representative for the 15th of New York Congress district, sniped.

“A condescending paternalistic progressivism will not draw working-class Latino men back to the Democratic Party,” he continued, pointing to the attitude that has seemingly become commonplace following the vote on MSNBC and CNN.

“It will repel them.”

Martin said Friday that Democrats should take time in the coming months to rebuild the party — by prioritizing “race(s) in every zip code,” not just presidential ones.

In addition to the presidency, Republicans recently gained a majority in the House of Representatives after flipping the U.S. Senate.

The US Supreme Court, whose judges serve life sentences, is also predominantly Republican.