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Martin Pengelly in Washington

‘Straight-up BS’: Democratic chair attacks Bernie Sanders’ election critique

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Bernie Sanders speaks in Concord, New Hampshire, in October. Photograph: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters

Amid Democratic mourning over the loss of the presidential election to Donald Trump, the party chair risked deepening already growing divisions by rebuking the leftwing Vermont senator Bernie Sanders for saying Democrats have “abandoned working class people”.

“This is straight up BS,” Jaime Harrison, the Democratic National Committee chair, said on Thursday. “[Joe] Biden was the most pro-worker president of my lifetime – saved union pensions, created millions of good paying jobs and even marched in a picket line.”

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