‘That’s not true’: Al Sharpton scolds Dems for acting like they lost

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MSNBC’s Al Sharpton is still singing the praises of President Joe Biden and chided Democrats for describing the election as a “landslide.”

The leftist MSNBC host took his party to task as he reacted to a scathing op-ed from Rahm Emanuel, the former Chicago mayor who wrote that President-elect Donald Trump’s victory was “jarring” for Democrats.

“I agree in part,” Sharpton said on “Morning Joe” Wednesday.

“I think I would not say jarring because let’s remember the Democrats only lost by less than 2%. We keep acting like there was a landslide against the Democrats. That’s not true,” he contended.

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“I think that Rahm was right that had there been more emphasis and more projection on the pain that people are feeling, they would have edged that 1.5% and won the election,” Sharpton claimed. “And they could have identified that a lot of the reason you are hurting is the guy that succeeded Barack Obama and Joe Biden who did nothing about some of the issues that you are talking about, in fact, coddled some of the people that benefited and never paid in terms of the economy collapsing when it did under the last days of George Bush.”

“And I think that Joe Biden had a lot that he could show that was not being pushed out. I think those that were trying to say he’s too old, get out were putting out the accomplishments. Joe Biden really stabilized the economy. He was the most consequential civil rights president in my lifetime,” Sharpton gushed about the lame-duck Democrat leader.

He continued to praise Biden’s so-called accomplishments while seeming to call out Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign for not putting more emphasis on that than on “identity politics.”

“He’s put more blacks on the bench than any president. He’s been — he put a black woman as vice president, a black woman in the supreme court, and more black federal judges,” Sharpton said.

“I mean, but they were not talking about that. They were talking about identity politics that didn’t matter rather than what did matter, so I think Rahm is right, there should have been more emphasis on what they did and more targeting of what Donald Trump would not do and did not do as president,” he said.

Emanuel, who is currently serving as U.S. Ambassador to Japan, wrote in his piece, “The road back to power for Democrats,” that the party missed “the moment.”

“Campaigns of joy in an era of rage don’t win elections,” he wrote in a direct dig at the failed Harris campaign.

He argued that the Democrat Party “has been blind to the rising sea of disillusionment.”

“In today’s America, aspiration and ambition have been supplanted by anger and animosity. Talk about missing the moment,” he wrote.

“The bonds of trust between the establishment and the public had been severed, and too many in our party failed to appreciate it. In fact, during the pandemic, Democrats abandoned their antiestablishment credentials and enthusiastically morphed into the establishment. In ‘following the science,’ we shuttered schools and the economy,” he noted.

“Meanwhile, our language and priorities have reinforced the ‘aloof elite’ stereotype,” he continued, calling out the “hermetically sealed conversation with ourselves” that only drove home that Democrats are “distant and detached.”

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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.