Clyburn blames media for Democratic failures, takes aim at Washington Post

"Well, I think the message coming from the Democratic Party is a good message," Clyburn responded. "The problem we've got, I'll say, is that we have to depend upon the media to deliver it."

"If we have The Washington Post, for instance, caving to this wannabe dictator, and we've got other media entities that seem to rather push a narrative that will bring eyes to their newspapers or to their television sets and not really give a fair hearing or reporting to what we're doing," Clyburn continued.

He then took time to praise the MSNBC host.

"I have to rely upon people like yourself," he told Velshi. "You do a great job with this. That's why I like coming on your shows on the weekends, because you do a real good substantive reporting of what the issues are around us."

"But when you've got people who say we're not going to fact-check, we're going to worry about whether or not you're telling the truth. And just let the reports go out there. That's what's killing us as Democrats, because we don't have a stomach for just lying," Clyburn said. 

The party's messaging failures were criticized by former Biden press secretary and current MSNBC host, Jen Psaki.

She went on to say, "So, I don't know that people voted against democracy, I think they voted in some ways against protection of status-quo and kind of the disconnected academic Ivory Tower elite language that is too often used by Democrats, sometimes on cable television." 

Psaki added that one of her takeaways going forward was to "cross authoritarianism and oligarchy out of every script. Nobody talks this way."

Fox News' Alexander Hall contributed to this report.