Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., is blaming the "far left" from his own party for President-elect Donald Trump's victory, saying they alienated constituents and led them to voting for him over Vice President Kamala Harris.
"Donald Trump has no greater friend than the far left, which has managed to alienate historic numbers of Latinos, Blacks, Asians, and Jews from the Democratic Party with absurdities like 'Defund the Police' or 'From the River to the Sea' or 'Latinx,'" Torres posted on X Wednesday.
Torres was reelected in New York's 15th Congressional District Tuesday, taking 76.6% over the vote, Newsweek reported.
"There is more to lose than there is to gain politically from pandering to a far left that is more representative of Twitter, Twitch, and TikTok than it is of the real world," said Torres, who frequently criticizes the far-left Democrats' "squad" representatives. "The working class is not buying the ivory-towered nonsense that the far left is selling."
In exit polls, Trump's numbers among Hispanic voters surged. According to Edison Research, he won 46% of the Hispanic vote, climbing from 2020. The poll also said 13% of Black voters supported Trump, climbing 1% from the past election.
Trump also took 66% of the working class vote to outperform Democrats, even though he dropped by one point in this group from 2020, the Edison poll showed.
The Edison numbers also revealed 21% of Jewish voters chose Trump.
Meanwhile, an NBC exit poll showed that 54% of Asian American voters picked Harris and 38% voted for Trump.
"Squad" Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.; Greg Casar, D-Texas; and Summer Lee, D-Pa., were all reelected this week, even if their states chose Trump.
Two other members, Reps. Cory Bush, D-Mo., and Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., lost during the primaries earlier this year against Democrats who did not agree with them about Middle East policy.
Other progressives are giving reasons for Harris' loss, with former Democrat candidate Andrew Yang blaming the election results on the lack of a presidential primary and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., saying Democrats are ignoring the concerns of working-class Americans.
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