“We got too progressive , I believe,” said JoJo Burgess, the black Democratic mayor of Washington, Pennsylvania, a small city in steel country. He’s also a steelworker trying to claw back some of the steel country for Democrats .

Burgess argued that the Democrats’ problems are Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and identity politics, including gender ideology. Clairton Mayor Rich Lattanzi, also a Democrat and a former steelworker, basically agreed.

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“It’s almost like the Democrats forgot the people they are representing,” Lattanzi told the Washington Examiner .

In 2000, Al Gore won Fayette, Washington,

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