Michael Bennett Questions What His Party Is ‘Presenting’ To Americans After Getting Trounced In 2024

Democratic Colorado Sen. Michael Bennett said during Semafor’s World Economic Summit on Friday that his party’s messaging is not resonating with the American people.

Bennett said that he blames the Democratic Party for allowing President Donald Trump to win the elections in 2016 and 2024, stating that the messaging is not on track. The Colorado senator said that the party needs to reexamine its messaging that allowed Trump to defeat them twice in elections.

“The Democratic Party has been repudiated. We’ve lost to Trump twice. We didn’t just lose to him once,” Bennett said. “And the second time we lost to him, we had lost after he had taken away a woman’s right to choose. The first president to strip us of a fundamental civil right since Reconstruction. I mean, in my mind, that begs real questions about what we’re presenting to the American people and so I don’t think anybody in the Senate and in the Democratic caucus has any right to feel angry because we’re working there or angry because Trump is there. I blame him for many, many things. But I don’t blame him for getting elected. I blame the opposition in which I am apart for allowing him to get elected which is a disaster for our country.”

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The senator then disputed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s claim that the party is benefitting from Trump’s alleged “chaos.” He predicted that the Democrats will likely retake the House of Representatives in the 2026 midterms due to “the laws of political physics.” (RELATED: Dems Spent So Long Being Fake They No Longer Know How To Be Authentic)

Trump won the 2024 election in large part due to voters’ concerns about the economy and immigration, which were the top issues among Americans ahead of the election. The president made historic inroads with blue collar workers, black and Latino men, who preferred Trump’s economic policies over former Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump became the first Republican nominee to win Hispanic men in a presidential election, earning 55% of support among that group in an NBC News exit poll. Harris only received 52% support among Hispanic men in exit polls, while President Joe Biden garnered 61% in 2020 and former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton earned 66% in 2016, according to Politico.

The president became the first Republican nominee in 20 years to win the popular vote. While Americans supported Trump’s immigration policies, Democrats have raged about the deportation of MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was sent back to El Salvador in March after illegally entering the U.S. in 2011. Polls have shown that Americans support Trump’s handling of immigration.

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