Trump won because Democrats missed Americans' "anger" about the economy, former Secretary of Defense says

Fortune

Donald Trump won the presidency because he understood America's frustration over the economy, former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told the Fortune Global Forum.

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00:00I thought Democrats had lost touch with a lot of key constituencies, they had lost touch

00:05with rural America, lost touch with workers, lost touch with minorities, lost touch with

00:12young people.

00:14An important element of the base of the Democratic Party, they lost touch with.

00:18And at the same time, we're not talking about the big issues that concern the American people

00:24and understanding the pain that was out there.

00:27And I think they paid a price for that.

00:30And that's why Trump won by the margins that he won.

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