San Francisco’s mayor-elect Daniel Lurie (D), who won over the incumbent last week, discussed Democrats’ losses and his success in an interview Tuesday.
CNN’s Erin Burnett pressed Lurie on the impact of the election results on Democrats.
“Republicans seeing their best numbers in decades,” she said. “And those swings, I mean, it‘s unbelievable, right, just to think about it, in the liberal strongholds of New York, Chicago and, of course, your city of San Francisco. So, mayor-elect, how big of a wake-up call is this for the Democratic Party?”
The mayor-elect, an heir to the Levi Strauss fortune and notable California philanthropist, said those in San Francisco “don‘t think of ourselves as progressives or moderates or conservatives.”
“We just want to get back to common sense. We have to deliver the basics, and that‘s my plan, that‘s the mandate that I was elected to fulfill,” Lurie added.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed (D) conceded to Lurie last Thursday. She also called him to congratulate him on his victory.