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Nancy Pelosi has hit out at Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for blaming Kamala Harris‘ election loss on Democrats ‘abandoning working class families.’
The fracas began even before the vice president’s concession speech on Wednesday when Sanders blasted her failed campaign in a post on social media.
‘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 wrote.
‘While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.’
But former House Speaker Pelosi, 84, who remains a major figure within the Democrat Party, told the New York Times The Interview podcast on Thursday she ‘completely disagreed’ with Sanders and does ‘not respect’ his remarks.
She claimed that the …