President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview published on Wednesday that Democrats lost the 2024 election because they did not understand common sense things that people do not want to see in their lives.
Trump made the remarks during a lengthy interview with TIME that was published when the magazine announced that he was the 2024 “Person of the Year.”
The soon-to-be 47th president said his campaign was successful because “we said things that were on the minds of the country.”
“I think the Democrats didn’t get it,” he said. “They just kept going back to the same old nonsense. And it was nonsense, especially in where we are right now. And we hit—we hit something that was very special. We hit the nerve of the country.”
Trump said that Democrats did not get “the feel of the country,” which he said was people being in a state of anger because of the millions of…
