Fareed Zakaria suggests that Democrats could abandon their efforts to win over working-class voters.

Fareed Zakaria, a CNN host, wrote in a column published on Friday that the Democratic Party's influence with working-class voters has deteriorated so severely that it is now necessary to abandon the strategy of trying to win their support.

"According to Zakaria in a Washington Post column, Democrats possess several electoral advantages, including a strong base of college-educated professionals, women, and minorities. Additionally, many swing voters who have helped them win the popular vote in seven of the past nine presidential elections are registered independents and suburbanites."

"Perhaps Democrats should focus on their new base and create a policy agenda based on it, rather than yearning for the working class Whites they lost long ago, as Zakaria suggested in a piece titled "Biden lost the working class. Democrats should stop trying to win them back.""

Despite President Biden's policy successes while in office, he has "succeeded" as a political leader.

Zakaria wrote that he departs from the presidency with one of the lowest approval ratings in history and his party having lost the presidency, House, and Senate in the 2024 elections.

Zakaria stated that political failure is the economic policy of Biden.

"Biden's presidency has been a test of a theory that has been animating Democratic Party elites for almost two decades, which holds that the party's shift to more market-friendly economic policy was a mistake and that the way to win back the working class was to change that orientation. The Biden administration pursued economic policies infused with a new interventionist spirit, passing massive infrastructure and climate spending bills, explicitly designed to help noncollege-educated Americans."

In 2024, working-class Hispanic and Asian American voters who felt overlooked by Biden's leftward shift on immigration and DEI issues backed the Republicans.

In November, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent who aligns with Democrats, stated that the party had neglected blue-collar voters, mirroring a debate among Democrats about their connection with working-class voters. This is reflected in Zakaria's article.

Sanders stated that it was not surprising that the Democratic Party, which had forsaken working-class individuals, would see the working class abandon them, following President-elect Trump's victory.