Newsweek Senior Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer claims the Democrats lost the US election because they pandered to the “vocal but ultimately tiny” portion of the American electorate. Black Kamala Harris staffers have accused the campaign of mistreatment and racial discrimination according to an article published by the New York Times. “The Democratic Party as an institution, is really what is to blame for the fact that the Democrats lost this election,” Mr Hammer told Sky News host Danica De Giorgio. “They became the party of this very loud, very vocal, but ultimately tiny and statistically insignificant portion of the broader American electorate. “They backed themselves into a corner.”