Bernie Sanders angers Democrats after Kamala Harris defeat: 'Not a big surprise'

Sen. Bernie Sanders ripped apart the Democratic Party after Vice President Kamala Harris lost to President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday.

Trump appeared poised to capture the battleground states and secure another term as president, while Harris underperformed voters across the country after what was at times a tense campaign. Democrats have already begun their autopsy of the election results, while Harris supporters are expressing a mix of outrage and despair.

Sanders, a Vermont independent who is caucusing with Democrats re-elected Tuesday night, issued a scathing statement Wednesday afternoon about the Democrats' performance.

“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party that has failed the working class would find that the working class has failed them,” Sanders wrote. First it was the white working class, and now it’s Latino and black workers too.”

This is a developing story that will be updated as additional information becomes available.