Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders Gave Joe Biden High Praise... [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)From the very beginning of 2016.
https://www.cnn.com/2016/01/11/politics/joe-biden-bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-income-inequality/index.html
VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: If Bernie Sanders had never said he was a "Democratic Socialist," based on what he is saying, people would not be calling him that. That's how he characterizes himself --in sort of European terms-- like the Democratic-socialist parties in Europe.
GLORIA BORGER, CNN: But why is [Clinton] having trouble [beating him]?
BIDEN: Bernie is speaking to a yearning that is deep and real, and he has credibility on it. And that is the absolutely enormous concentration of wealth in a small group of people with the middle class being left out...
CNN: But Hillary is talking about that as well?
BIDEN: Well, it is relatively new for Hillary to talk about that. Hillary's focus has been on other things up until now, and it has been Bernie's --no one questions Bernie's authneticity on these issues.
But that was before Biden knew he was running against Sanders.
I don't get your point. You think candidates should be praising each other more in the heat of the primaries? Nice notion I guess.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided