White House: ‘Respectfully disagree’ with Sanders that Democrats abandoned working class

The White House on Thursday said it "respectfully" disagrees with Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) assessment that the Democratic party has abandoned working class people, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Thursday.

“Respectfully disagree with the senator and I think you can talk to unions, you can see the jobs that we have been able to create to disprove that,” Jean-Pierre said on Thursday when asked for a response to the senator’s comments.

“And this is a president that...