During CNN’s coverage of Sunday’s CNN Democratic presidential debate, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stated that fellow 2020 Democrat former Vice President Joe Biden is, all of a sudden, “a free-spending socialist.” But “we’ll see how real it is.”
Sanders said, “Now, what’s interesting is that Biden has adopted some of — this is what always happens. Suddenly, today, Joe Biden is a free-spending socialist.”
He added that while Biden is “basically, after all is said and done, maintaining the status quo in health care. … I think we are winning the ideological struggle, and we won it tonight.”
Sanders further stated, “I think you have heard media and others talking about, isn’t it remarkable, how when we had 18 candidates to begin this process, so many of them have moved so far of where we were four years ago. You just heard this tonight. Yesterday, Biden, basically, is saying, yeah, I voted for that bankruptcy bill, bad idea, I’m going to adopt Elizabeth Warren’s position, that’s a good bill, okay? Today, he says, oh, I think we should make public colleges and universities tuition-free, up to a certain level. Yes, we have brought Biden — well, we’ll see how real it is. But I think people have got to make the choice about whether they want the real thing, something that I’ve been fighting for for years, or somebody who just changed his views in the last two days.”
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