With anti-Trump messaging a key part of her pitch, Sawant’s critics will be quick to note that she campaigned for Green Party candidate Jill Stein, knowing Stein would lose, and admitting that she wanted to defeat Democrat nominee Kamala Harris. Her open antagonism toward Harris earned Sawant a reputation for helping Trump win his election.To be clear, even if Harris had won every single Stein voter, she would have still lost to Trump.
Sawant told The Burner she has “zero regrets” about campaigning against Harris and for Stein. She said she did “exactly what was needed for the working class.” In her retelling of the 2024 presidential race, the Democrats hid former President Joe Biden’s mental decline, then at the last moment gave Harris a coronation, and then Harris failed to drum up enough support to defeat the most unpopular president in U.S. history.
“The defeat is entirely at [Harris’s] feet and at the feet of the Democratic Party as a whole for failing to offer even the slightest bit of solidarity with working people,” said Sawant. “If Harris had so much as put a nod towards a $15 an hour minimum wage federally, so much as allowed Palestinian anti-war activists to speak at the DNC, so much as said something against the domination of big business, it could have made the difference.”
But even if Harris had done any of those things, Sawant said that such an appeal to the working class would be disingenuous. As any Seattlite has heard her say countless times, the Democratic Party does not serve the interests of the working class.
