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There’s been much weeping and gnashing of teeth on the left over Kamala Harris’ dismal election showing and while some are whining that her loss was the result of racism and sexism, the top House Democrat begs to differ.

In a rare moment of candor from House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), he rebuffed the suggestion of “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin that bigotry is what cost the party control of the White House.

During a Friday appearance on the ABC daytime gabfest, Jeffries was breaking down the post-election political landscape and told faux conservative co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin that the takeaway from the Kamala collapse is that voters were more concerned about kitchen table issues that actually impact their lives rather than abortion, identity politics, and Trump is Hitler which is what she ran on.

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“[T]hat basic contract between everyday Americans and the country, which is that if you work hard and play by the rules, you should be able to provide a comfortable living for yourself for your family, purchase a home, educate your children, have access to health care, go on vacation every now and then and one day be able to retire with grace and dignity,” he told the ladies at the table.

“That’s the American dream, but for far too many people it’s out of reach. That shouldn’t be a Democratic or Republican issue. That’s an American issue that we should all address together,” Jeffries said.

Then he burst the race-obsessed co-host’s bubble.

“Something that I’m still struggling with, and I’d love to hear your thoughts on, is how did a convicted felon resonate more with Americans than a hyper-qualified woman of color?” Hostin asked. “Do you think that racism and misogyny played any part in this election?”

“I think that Vice President Harris was eminently qualified, and I supported her with everything that I had, and I think so many Americans did. It was a close election at the end of the day. Didn’t break in her direction,” Jeffries responded.

“I think we all are going to unpack as part of our after-action analysis. How did this happen? Where did we fall short? I do think that the emerging lesson, separate and apart from reasons maybe connected to race and misogyny, is that the economy was the dominant thing for a lot of folks,” he added, noting that as James Carville once famously remarked, “It’s the economy, stupid.”

In a previous episode, Hostin – an incorrigible racist – mixed it up with Griffin about what she claimed was the “uncomfortable, inconvenient truth” that racism and sexism cost Harris the presidency.

“As a country, it’s very difficult for people to believe that racism and misogyny, they’re just alive and well. I think that we don’t want to think that about ourselves, our neighbors, our friends, but it’s— my lived experience tells me that it does still exist, even if your lived experience doesn’t tell that it exists and, you know, the facts support that,” Hostin told her fellow harpy.

“It’s very clear. It’s not only clear by race, but it’s also clear by education, and so the notion somehow that that is not true — this is by education. Those who attended a college voted for her at a higher degree than those that didn’t,” she said. “I’ve said that before, and there was so much backlash because I think it’s an uncomfortable, inconvenient truth about this country.”

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