‘I Ran Against A Socialist’: Biden Takes Aim At Sanders, Progressives In Town Hall
By Emily Zanotti
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Oct 6, 2020 DailyWire.com
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden took great pains, Monday night, to distance himself from one of his top campaign advisors, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and assure voters that he is not a stalking horse for a progressive presidential agenda.
President Donald Trump has long insisted that a Biden administration would be among the most progressive in history, and Biden has done little to dismiss that claim, welcoming a number of far-left Democratic legislators — including a handful of “Democratic socialists†— on to his campaign policy teams, and making Sanders, a well-known socialist himself, a chief surrogate.
Monday night, though, in a town hall event hosted by NBC News, Biden claimed that his victory over Sanders proves that he intends to govern as a moderate.
“‘Look, I’m the guy that ran against a socialist,†Biden said. “Remember, I got in trouble with the whole campaign, 20-something candidates? Joe Biden was too centrist, too moderate, too straightforward. That was Joe Biden.â€
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