Biden steps up attacks on Sanders as Super Tuesday approaches

[RandySF]

Former Vice President Joe Biden followed up his resounding victory in the South Carolina presidential primary by taking aim at Democratic frontrunner Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Sunday morning, describing the self-proclaimed democratic socialist as an electoral liability.

Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Biden said Sanders would lose in a general election matchup with Trump.

“I think Bernie Sanders’s positions on a number of issues, even in the Democratic Party, are very controversial," Biden said.

“Everybody’s going to look at Bernie’s record as closely as they’ve looked at mine over the last five months, and I think they’re going to see some stark differences in where we stand,” he added.

Sanders leads Trump in head-to-head matchups in most polling, both nationally and in battleground states.

In a separate appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” Biden argued Democrats would run the risk of losing their House majority in the event of a Sanders nomination.

“I think he’ll have great trouble bringing along other senators, keeping the House of Representatives, winning back the Senate and down-ballot initiatives,” Biden said, adding that the choice between the two is “not about whether we restore the soul of the Democratic Party… it’s about restoring the soul, uniting this country, the whole country, and I think I can do that.”


https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/485365-biden-steps-up-attacks-on-sanders-as-super-tuesday-approaches

[msongs]

1. not much of an attack really nt

[TwilightZone]

2. Agreed.

It's more like differentiating the two, which everyone here claims they want more of, rather than "attacks".

[George II]

3. Senators and Representatives know who would be better....

Biden has the endorsements from six sitting Senators and 47 sitting Representative. Sanders has one and eight.

[emmaverybo]

4. Biden also has endorsements from I think now 20 members of the CBC to Bernie's one.

[ripcord]

5. Of course the elite knows better than the peons

You people are ridiculous.

[George II]

6. Don't forget, the "elite" passed the Civil Rights Act, the Affordable Care Act, and many others.

[ripcord]

8. Because it was the will of the people

[NurseJackie]

7. Apparently that's "shocking" and a vitriolic attack to point out these differences.

You monster, you, how you be so heartless and cruel!

(I actually hate the "sarcasm" tag, but apparently it's necessary for odd but obvious reasons. Anyway, there it is.)

[LizBeth]

9. About time. Sanders has been doing it for five years.

[Cha]

10. Biden is absolutely correct.

[blue-wave]

11. And a new poll shows Sanders is a risky candidate

"A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll suggests that Sanders could be a riskier nominee than his supporters are willing to admit. In a national trial heat with Trump, Sanders led 48 percent to 42 percent among registered voters. Yet when the playing field was narrowed to the 10 states that were closest in the 2016 presidential election and that will likely decide 2020 — Michigan, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida, Minnesota, Nevada, Maine, North Carolina and Arizona — Sanders’s lead over Trump was slashed in half (48 percent to 45 percent). That 3-point gap was within the margin of error.

In contrast, former Vice President Joe Biden led Trump by 9 points nationally (50 percent to 41 percent) and by 7 points (50 percent to 43 percent) in the battleground states."

https://news.yahoo.com/new-yahoo-news-you-gov-poll-biden-holds-edge-over-sanders-in-battlegrounds-171601673.html

Joe is absolutely right!!! Bernie will likely cost us the House. We will not take the Senate and well, the White House with Trump for four more years? Not many really want that.


Go Joe Go!!!!