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A top Bernie Sanders strategist on why Kamala Harris lost

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Kamala Harris's loss to President Donald Trump is being blamed for the Democratic Party's failure to win back working-class voters.

Today , Explained co-host Noel King spoke with Jeff Weaver , a political consultant and longtime Sanders adviser.

Weaver: The Democratic Party is no longer seen as the party of the working man and shockingly, the Republican Party has become the working class party.

Jeff Weaver : Kamala Harris tried a version of appealing to the middle and working class.

He says the Democrats don't have a counter-narrative to the populist trend in America .

Weaver: Donald Trump offers a narrative for why things are the way they are and why you may be doing well.

The Democratic Party needs to democratize itself, Jeff Weaver says.

The next step is to retool the agenda, he says, around economically populist issues and against the corporate elite.

The people who are least competent to make decisions about where this country should go, what the messaging should be, are Democratic Party insiders in Washington, DC .