The Senate map heavily favored Republicans this election cycle, so it came as little surprise

when Democrats lost the majority in the upper chamber.

In fact, just tonight, Democratic Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania officially conceded his

race.

But with Republicans also winning the White House and retaining control of the House of Representatives,

there's been a lot of

talk within the Democratic Party about what went wrong and what it should do to win back voters.

Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio is one of the incumbents who came up short this year and has argued

the party needs to do more to champion the issues of the working class. I spoke with him earlier today.

Senator Sarah Brown, welcome to the NewsHour. Thanks for being here. Thank you. I got to ask you about

your election loss because it really calcified for a lot of people that the Democratic Party

had lost working Americans as a core part of their base. And it's surprising in your case because you have spent your entire career talking about

working families and serving working Americans. It's been a central theme for you,

even as your state drifted red. So why do you think that that message in Ohio,

why did it fail to resonate with voters this time around?

Well, it did resonate.

I ran way ahead of the national ticket.

I ran seven or eight points out of the national ticket.

But it's been a slow migration away from the Democratic Party of American workers, starting

with NAFTA.

And since then, Democrats don't talk enough about workers, don't put workers at the center of what we should be doing.

And my career has been working to do that in my post career, whatever it is, my post-Sinnet career will continue to do that.

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