In response to the results of last night’s presidential election, Maurice Mitchell, National Director of the Working Families Party, has issued the following statement:

“It may not seem like it, but today is the beginning of the end for the Trump era and the MAGA movement. Donald Trump has no solutions to address the needs of working-class people in this country. And we know that when he tries to implement his agenda of more tax cuts for billionaires, gutting health care, deporting millions, and supporting war crimes with public dollars, people will rise up. 

“Make no mistake, we have a lot of urgent work to do. Not just to protect each other in the face of a right-wing authoritarian government, though we must do that. It’s clear from last night’s results that we’ll only get to victory by building a coalition of working-class people of all races.

“The exit of working-class voters from the Democratic Party didn’t start this election cycle. It’s been going on for years. Now, that realignment has put the authoritarian right in power. 

“This is an all-hands-on-deck moment. We need to join together to build the largest pro-democracy coalition in history and block Trump at every turn. The solution to Trump’s politics of division is a politics of solidarity. We also need to build independent political power, because both major parties have failed to prioritize working people. It’s time to get to work.”