New York Democrat Nukes His Own Party After Harris Defeat: ‘Trump Has No Greater Friend Than The Far Left’

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Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) took aim at his own party on Wednesday after Donald Trump resoundingly defeated Kamala Harris in the presidential election the night before.

Torres first weighed in on the election as Harris’s defeat was taking shape, writing on X, “The signs of a decisive defeat were staring us in the face all along. We were simply in denial about them or willfully blind to them, substituting magical thinking for actual analysis.” He added:

In recent history, there’s no precedent for an incumbent party winning a presidential election when the percentage of Americans who think the country is on the right track or headed in the right direction is in the 20s. The structural challenge was simply insurmountable.

On Wednesday morning he posted again and tore into the far left of his party, “Donald Trump has no greater friend than the far left, which has managed to alienate historic numbers of Latinos, Blacks, Asians, and Jews from the Democratic Party with absurdities like ‘Defund the Police’ or ‘From the River to the Sea’ or ‘Latinx.’”

“There is more to lose than there is to gain politically from pandering to a far left that is more representative of Twitter, Twitch, and TikTok than it is of the real world. The working class is not buying the ivory-towered nonsense that the far left is selling,” he argued.

Later on Wednesday, Torres railed against some of the prevailing explanations on the left as to why Harris lost:

Popular explanations for the outcome of the election seem to include white supremacy, patriarchy, misogyny…

I am going to state the obvious here: vilifying voters of color as white supremacists will not attract them back to the Democratic Party. It will drive them further into Trump’s camp. The purpose of politics is not to repel but to attract. Condescension is the most powerful repellant in politics. Voters viscerally resent condescension and will punish you for it at the ballot box.

Torres has made headlines in recent months for his staunch pro-Israel advocacy following the devastating October 7th attack on southern Israel by Hamas. The New York Democrat left the Congressional Progressive Caucus in February and has repeatedly sparred publicly with fellow Democrats over the Israel-Hamas war.