Democrats got emotional over their losses in the 2020 election during an anguished private Democratic Party phone conference on Thursday that was reported by several reporters on social media.
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) said on the call that if the Democrats "are going to run on Medicare for All, defund the police, socialized medicine, we're not going to win," according to Politico.
Moderate Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger of Virginia agreed and scolded the party for pushing extreme messages that almost cost her a re-election bid.
"We need to be pretty clear," she reportedly said on the call, "It was a failure. It was not a success. We lost incredible members of Congress."
