Seth Moulton Blasts Fellow Democrats For Not Grasping the ‘Depth’ of Election Losses: ‘Seriously, We Lost Big!’
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) accused his Democratic colleagues of not fully grasping the “depth” of the party’s election losses, telling CNN many are defending the party despite their losses.
Moulton joined Kasie Hunt on CNN This Morning on Friday and pushed back against backlash he’s received for being critical of his own party after the election led to Republicans winning a trifecta with President-elect Donald Trump and a majority in the House and Senate.
“Do you get the sense that there is an understanding among your colleagues, among your leadership, of the depth of the defeats and what to do about it or not?” Hunt asked the lawmaker.
Moulton ripped into some of his Democratic colleagues, claiming many in the House have been defending their party’s performance there by saying they performed a little better than Vice President Kamala Harris against Trump. According to Moulton, this should have been the easiest election for his party to win in his lifetime.
The lawmaker said:
“Not really. I think there’s a lot of Democrats going around, especially in the House, justifying how we did by saying, ‘Oh we did a little bit better than Harris.’ But let’s put this in perspective. Okay, the Republican Party has been in a civil war for the last year, the Trump faction with traditional Republicans, culminating in the House where we couldn’t even have a Speaker. They couldn’t elect a Speaker for three weeks, alright? This party is led by a convicted felon. So Democrats should’ve had the easiest election in our lifetime. We should have cleaned up from president of the United States to local school board, Democrats should have swept this and yet we got defeated across the board, so seriously, we lost big. And we’ve got to come to grips with that if we’re going to be willing to change.”
Hunt turned to comments Moulton made to The New York Times about Democrats spending too much time trying “not to offend” on topics like trans athletes, kicking up backlash from fellow Democrats.
Moulton said pushback only proves his point that his party is out of touch.
“It completely proves my point. I mean, I was using this as one of many examples where the Democratic Party has lost touch with the American people, but the problem is we’re so insistent on policing our words and even refusing to engage in debates about contentious issues that we’re just losing on them,” he said.
Watch above via CNN.
