On MSNBC’s “All In” broadcast Friday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) praised President Joe Biden as someone who has “put together more progressive policies and a record of success than any president in modern history.”
While discussing his yet to formally endorse Vice President Kamala Harris, the 2024 Democratic presidential candidate, and the commitments he would like from her, Sanders said, “I’m going to do everything in my power to defeat Donald Trump, clearly the most dangerous president in history, someone who doesn’t believe in democracy or women’s right to control their own bodies. We haven’t talked about this enough, but this guy thinks climate change is a hoax, in the midst of the hottest day on record on Earth. So we’ve got to defeat him. Ali, you know, one thing I’ve worried about for a long time is that as someone who comes from a working-class family, it breaks my heart that a majority of working-class people support the Republican Party. And the Republican Party could win.[n’t] “The Democratic Party doesn’t really care about the needs of working families. I think that has a lot to do with the Democratic Party turning its back on working people for decades. And I think the key exception to that is Joe Biden.”
He continued, “Joe was the first president in American history to strike, he appointed a very competent Secretary of Labor, great people, a National Labor Relations Board, and I think he’s put together the most progressive policies and record of any president in modern history. But what we can do in this race is make sure that working class people, white, black, Latino, understand that we understand the pain they’re going through. We see huge inequalities in income and wealth. Ali, the truth of our economy right now is that people at the top are doing amazingly well, but 60% of our people are living paycheck to paycheck. We talked about health care, but our health care system is broken and dysfunctional. Half of our seniors live on less than $30,000. Our child care system is completely broken. We have to start looking at the needs of the working class in this country and stand up to the powerful special interests that have so much power not just in the Republican Party but also in the Democratic Party.”
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