Ro Khanna Admits Democrats Ran ‘Status Quo’ Candidates While Working-Class Voters Got ‘Shafted’

Democrats spent years calling President Trump’s supporters extreme, deplorable, and out of touch.

Now their own party is being forced to say what MAGA voters already knew: the Democratic establishment abandoned working-class Americans and got punished at the ballot box.

Rep. Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, went on Meet the Press this weekend and delivered a remarkably blunt admission about his own party’s failures.

He said Democrats “too often ran status quo establishment candidates” who refused to challenge a rigged economic system, and that working-class voters had been “shafted.”

The DNC “autopsy” has finally emerged revealing the cause of death of the 2024 Kamala Harris campaign.

You can sum up the nearly 200 pages in one sentence:

“Joe Biden sucked as President and Kamala Harris would have sucked even more.” pic.twitter.com/LrvpBc0iIW

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) May 24, 2026

CNN commentator Scott Jennings summed up the nearly 200-page DNC autopsy in a single sentence that cut straight to