, updated By Charlie Spiering, Senior Political Reporter, Washington, Dc and Stephen M. Lepore For Dailymail.Com
Sen. Bernie Sanders issued a blistering statement criticizing the Democratic party after another loss to President-elect Donald Trump.
‘It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,’ the 83-year-old senator from Vermont wrote on social media.
Sanders, who identifies as a Democratic socialist, shared his statement just before Vice President Kamala Harris‘ concession speech.
Sanders said that it was the white working class who first delivered turned on Democrats, but that they had now been joined by black and Latino workers.
‘While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change,’ he wrote. ‘And they’re right.’