Katie Couric says Democrats have 'kind of lost' working class votes, urges party to 'do better'

Former NBC "Today" show host Katie Couric warned this week that Democrats have "kind of lost" working class voters and urged the party to "do better" to regain their trust before the November election.

"I think that there needs to be a greater connection between the working class and the Democratic Party because, let’s face it…the Democrats have kind of lost the working class," Couric told former Obama White House deputy chief of staff Alyssa Mastromonaco on the "Hysteria" podcast.

"It was never that way during all my years of covering politics," Couric added. "You had the head of the Teamsters at the RNC, you have people buying into this notion that Republicans care about dinner table issues much more than Democrats. And these narratives, I think, have become too deeply entrenched about liberal college-educated elites who are condescending."

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The liberal former news anchor said Democratic support among working-class Americans has been dwindling ever since Hillary Clinton referred to former President Trump and his supporters as a "basket of deplorables."

Clinton's remark received widespread criticism at the time and has been credited as one of the turning points in the campaign that led to Trump's 2016 victory.

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Couric said Democrats need to form a "much stronger connection" to the working class and urged Kamala Harris to make a case to the "regular Joes."

"They can't just give up on that voting bloc…[they should say] 'Hey, we care about you, we care about your issues, we know a lot of things have really been hard…but this