Graham Platner

It might be, but we're not winning with that.

I mean, there's that great Chuck Schumer line.

Yeah, I know.

For every working class person we lose out in the countryside, we're going to gain two voters in the suburbs.

Suburb, yeah.

And it didn't happen.

Donald Trump won.

And then he won again.

And we lost a lot of seats around the country.

So clearly that math did not pan out.

I truly think that the only way forward for us as a party is to really become a real party of working people again.

And when you do that-

It doesn't mean you're like also not, I mean, look, when I talk about working people, I literally mean anybody that just makes money from wages, which is everybody.

I mean, I'll just be like, I've had a bunch of folks be like, well, what about the middle class?

I'm like, yeah, man, in this America, the middle class is the working class.

Quite frankly, somebody that started a business and has just worked their asses off every day ever since and might now have like a bunch of money but still works,

They're way closer to someone working three jobs in poverty than they are to a billionaire.

We're all kind of down here.

And when we talk about policies, about clawing a lot of that wealth back, we're not talking about going after small business owners.

We're not talking about going after big business owners.