‘Bet The House On White Women’: CNN’s Bakari Sellers Says Dems ‘Left At The Altar’ After Trump Win

CNN analyst Bakari Sellers pointed to the focus on White suburban women as he sorted through President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, saying Democrats “bet the house” on that group twice and lost.

Going into Election Day, the expectation was that it would be a close presidential race that could take days or longer to reach a clear decision. But once polls began to close and the results poured in, it was only a matter of hours before outlets called the race for Trump.

On Wednesday’s post-election edition of CNN This Morning, Sellers wondered what could have been done differently, identifying the heavy focus on reproductive rights as perhaps a misplaced “bet” on White Women that didn’t pay off:

BAKARI SELLERS: This race, though, was bigger than a singular decision. And that’s what is going to drive me crazy about the postmortems that different reporters are going to write about.

Because I already know– I’m I am waiting on the Cillizza missive about the fact that she didn’t choose Josh Shapiro. Josh Shapiro was not going to change the outcome of this race, period. I mean, it’s bigger.

What we saw were the fundamentals of this race were different than everything that I thought it was prior to the election. Right? The fundamentals of this race, the headwinds that they were running against, I believe even if Joe Biden made the decision two years ago, those headwinds would still be there.

We’re talking about inflation. We’re talking about immigration. We’re talking about crime. All of those things, the war in Gaza, Ukraine, Russia, Ukraine, all of those things were still going to be in place.

And so I think when the Democratic Party looks at this, it’s more of a– instead of what decision could we have been done, can we do differently versus some type of pedagogy shift or ideological shift, or how do we rebuild our coalition?

I mean, also I mean, this is the second–.

KASIE HUNT: Are you saying that this was inevitable?

BAKARI SELLERS: I think after we look at these I mean, I’ve been here with you for four hours now. I’m getting to that. I’m getting to that–. I mean, it took me a while–.

(LAUGHTER).

KASIE HUNT: You’re working it out in real time?

BAKARI SELLERS: To figure it out. I’m still working through this. But the inevitability of this actually looks as if it was there.

I think the only, the only bet that could have been done differently, and I don’t even know how you do it because it’s reproductive rights.

But we were just talking about white women. This is the second time, the second time that Democrats bet the House on white women and suburban white women. And this is the second time they’ve been left at the altar by suburban white women.

Watch above via CNN This Morning.