Bernie Sanders says Trump is trying to undermine the election to stay in power
WASHINGTON — In his first major public speech since bowing out of the presidential race, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said Thursday that President Trump is trying to undermine the legitimacy of the upcoming election.
“Today the peaceful transition of power, the bedrock of American democracy, is being threatened like never before,” Sanders said at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
The speech came less than a day after Trump declined to commit to a peaceful transfer of power at a Wednesday press conference. Trump’s remarks sparked fierce criticism from Democrats, while a number of Republican senators noted — without naming the president — that a peaceful transfer of power is a bedrock principle of American government.
The Vermont senator and runner-up in this year’s Democratic primary was particularly critical of Trump’s repeated and unfounded criticism of mail-in balloting. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, voting by mail has grown exponentially more popular this year.
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