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voting for Trump. I’m hearing this theme over and over. And they seem to equate education with elitism. They feel like the highly educated think they are better than the less educated. They feel like the Democratic Party is the party of the highly educated, not the working class. That emotional beatdown they gave us is going to have some haunting consequences for all of us. But, at the same time, the Dems need to do some real soul-searching on this issue. We can’t let education be seen as a bad thing and an enemy of the (working class) people. I feel like this is an important piece of what went wrong in this election.

Well, we lost the presidential election, [but] in many cases, our Democrats in the House ran ahead of the presidential ticket. So, your branding that we all got rejected, we didn’t. We’re still in the fight right now, and it’s going to be a very close call. I don’t see it as an outright rejection of the Democratic Party. Now, I do have a discomfort level with some of the Democrats right now who are saying, “Oh, we abandoned the working class.” No, we didn’t. That’s who we are. We are the kitchen table, working-class party of America. And that’s why we are a close call in the House right now in a year where the map is bright red across the board.