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As the Democratic Party continues to grapple with the inescapable reality of crushing 2016 electoral defeats, former President Jimmy Carter has one request: don’t ignore white American workers. Throughout her presidential campaign, former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton kept intensely focused on wooing women, the LGBT community and several minority groups. But Carter contends Clinton lost so badly because she failed to talk to white, working-class people. “And I kept waiting for Mrs. Clinton to say, ‘I’m for you, white workers, too!'” “In the 2016 election alone, the working class people built the election,” Carter said during a sermon delivered at a church service in Georgia Sunday. “And I kept waiting for Mrs. Clinton to say, ‘I’m for you, white workers, too!'” But Clinton didn’t express that at all, as Carter lamented in the sermon aired on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Monday. “But [Clinton] hasn’t talked to them in ages and went after Americans who were Hispanic and women and so forth,” Carter continued. “She
