Sen. Bernie Sanders said he is humiliated Democrats failed to pay attention to the white working class voters.
"There needs to be a profound change in the way the Democratic Party does business. It is not good enough to have a liberal elite," Sanders told "CBS This Morning."
"I come from the white working class and I am deeply humiliated that the Democratic Party can't talk to the people where I came from."
Sanders ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, but is officially an independent.
He told the morning news show that Democrats have to take on the angst of working class and go after Wall Street and drug companies.
He maintained President-elect Donald Trump and not Hillary Clinton was effective going after the voters' anger.
"She should have won this election by 10 percentage points," he said. "The question is why is it that millions of white working class people who voted for Obama turned their backs on the Democratic Party?"
In a column for The New York Times, Sanders noted Trump won because he tapped into a "very real and justified anger" that many traditional Democrats feel.
"I am saddened, but not surprised, by the outcome," he wrote. "It is no shock to me that millions of people who voted for Mr. Trump did so because they are sick and tired of the economic, political and media status quo."
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