Joe Biden is 'more receptive' to progressives than past Democrats, Bernie Sanders says

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Former Vice President Joe Biden’s close relationship with Sen. Bernie Sanders and willingness to engage with progressives could spell a difference between the 2020 presidential contest and former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 bid, Sanders said in an interview in The New Yorker magazine published on Tuesday.

“I think the difference now is that, between you and me, I have a better relationship with Joe Biden than I had with Hillary Clinton, and that Biden has been much more receptive to sitting down and talking with me and other progressives than we have seen in the past,” the Vermont lawmaker said.

Sanders competed against Clinton in 2016, and was the last Democrat standing against Biden during the 2020 primary contest. Democrats loyal to Clinton, with whom Sanders had an icy rapport, have criticized Sanders for what they saw as his insufficient effort to get his progressive backers behind her in 2016 after she defeated him in the primary.

Pressed to address that criticism, Sanders told The New Yorker that he did everything he could to get Clinton elected. But he said there was a misconception about how much influence candidates, on their own, can have on their supporters’ votes.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/09/sanders-biden-more-receptive-to-progressives-than-past-democrats.html

I can't wait to see the Bernie bashing for posting an article about his support of Biden.

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1. But he endorsed someone in a primary...