"He's fine": San Juan mayor, top Sanders surrogate, fiercely defends candidate's health

[Uncle Joe]

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"He's a very serious guy," Cruz paced the pews of the Unitarian-Universalist Church of Nashua. "You may want him to laugh a little every once in a while. But this is not a Miss Congeniality contest. This is about life and the essence of who we are."

Yet cheers lifted to the church vaults as the larger elephant was addressed. "By the way, he's fine. I spoke to him yesterday. He's rather ticked off that he's off the campaign trail. But he's had our back, and now we have to have his," Cruz remarked before sliding into a Spanish translation.


Carmen Yulin Cruz and Bernie Sanders in Puerto Rico in 2017.
ANDRE KANG / AP

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In 2017, it was a telephone call from Sanders that first convinced the mayor to support him. Sanders reached out personally to plan a tour of San Juan in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Cruz joked she did not believe it was him on the other line.

"He's never going to tell you this. So I'll tell you a little secret. I hung up on him," Cruz quipped. "I can't say it, because there are children and we're in a house of God, but I was like—" The mayor mouthed the word, "bullsh**," triggering laughter throughout the church.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bernie-sanders-heart-attack-san-juan-mayor-top-sanders-surrogate-fiercely-defends-candidates-health-2019-10-05/

[emulatorloo]

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