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‘I Ran Against A Socialist’: Biden Takes Aim At Sanders, Progressives In Town Hall

Emily Zanotti
‘I Ran Against A Socialist’: Biden Takes Aim At Sanders, Progressives In Town Hall
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden took great pains, Monday night, to distance himself from one of his top campaign advisors, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and assure voters that he is not a stalking horse for a progressive presidential agenda.

President Donald Trump has long insisted that a Biden administration would be among the most progressive in history, and Biden has done little to dismiss that claim, welcoming a number of far-left Democratic legislators — including a handful of “Democratic socialists” — on to his campaign policy teams, and making Sanders, a well-known socialist himself, a chief surrogate.

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