Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) expressed confidence on Tuesday that the far-left wing of her party will be able to push Democratic nominee Joe Biden &#8220;in a more progressive direction&#8221; if he becomes president.
Speaking with <a href="https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/ocasio-cortez-we-can-likely-push-biden-more-progressive-direction-if-hes" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Just The News</a> on Capitol Hill, Ocasio-Cortez said she agreed with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) that Biden is not liberal enough. Regarding Sanders, she said, &#8220;We&#8217;re different people, and clearly I, in the primary, one of the reasons why I was supportive of Senator Sanders was because of how progressive his stances are, but, you know, the primaries are over, and right now what is most important is to make sure that we ensure a Democratic victory in November and that we continue to push Vice President Biden on issues from marijuana to climate change to foreign policy.&#8221;
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&#8220;I think, overall, we can likely push Vice President Biden in a more progressive direction across policy issues,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I think foreign policy is an enormous area where we can improve; immigration is another one. Criminal justice is another area where we can pursue a lot of progressive direction.&#8221;
&#8220;There are some areas where we just fundamentally disagree, but that&#8217;s okay. I think it&#8217;s important to acknowledge that we can have, in some cases, very large disagreements — it doesn&#8217;t mean that we&#8217;re trying to undermine the party or undermine each other. It means that we&#8217;re trying to do what&#8217;s best for people in the country,&#8221; she added.
President Donald Trump and his surrogates have long been criticizing Biden as a mere placeholder or &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-is-a-trojan-horse-for-a-radical-agenda-mike-pence-warns" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Trojan horse</a>&#8221; for the more radical left-wing figures of his party, including his vice presidential pick Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA). Both Harris and Biden made headlines this week for referring to &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oops-biden-accidentally-refers-to-harris-biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the Harris-Biden administration</a>,&#8221; prompting critics to allege that even Biden sees himself as playing second fiddle to his running mate.
Biden, who would be the oldest president ever to take office, has described himself as a transition candidate who will likely <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-signals-hell-only-serve-one-term" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">not seek a second term</a>.
During a July speech at the birthplace of the Republican Party in Ripon, Wisconsin, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-is-a-trojan-horse-for-a-radical-agenda-mike-pence-warns" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Vice President Mike Pence said</a>, &#8220;Joe Biden has referred to himself as a transition candidate. But many were asking across this country, &#8216;A transition to what?'&#8221;
“It’s not so much whether America will be more conservative or more liberal, more Republican or Democrat, more red or blue. It’s whether America remains America,” Pence also said, and characterized the choice Americans face this November as “two paths, one based on the dignity of every individual, and the other on the growing control of the State.”
“When you consider Joe Biden’s agenda and his embrace of the radical Left, it’s clear: Joe Biden would be nothing more than an autopen president,” Pence predicted. “A Trojan horse for a radical agenda; so radical, so all-encompassing, that it would transform this country into something utterly unrecognizable.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-is-a-trojan-horse-for-a-radical-agenda-mike-pence-warns" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Biden Is ‘A Trojan Horse For A Radical Agenda,’ Mike Pence Warns</a>
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Former Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s top competition for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), is privately expressing concerns that Biden is about to blow his chances at winning the 2020 presidential campaign — and unless Biden makes some big changes, Sanders is worried that progressives, who&#8217;ve committed to backing Biden&#8217;s bid, will jump ship.
The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bernie-sanders-expresses-concerns-about-biden-campaign/2020/09/12/a0ccc4fa-f4a1-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html">Washington Post reports</a> that Sanders has &#8220;told associates that Biden is at serious risk of coming up short in the November election if he continues his vaguer, more centrist approach, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe sensitive talks.&#8221;
Sanders is chiefly concerned that the younger, more progressive wing of the party isn&#8217;t getting the attention &#8220;it deserves,&#8221; per The Washington Post, and that Biden has sacrificed the future of the party — Democratic socialists and far-left Millennial and Generation Z voters — in order to win a larger percentage of the electorate.
Sanders would prefer, sources tell The Washington Post, that Biden tack left in the last few weeks before the election.
&#8220;The senator has identified several specific changes he’d like to see,&#8221; the outlet notes, &#8220;saying Biden should talk more about health care and about his economic plans, and should campaign more with figures popular among young liberals, such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).&#8221;
Biden has been purposefully avoiding Ocasio-Cortez and other more progressive Democrats, largely because the progressive agenda doesn&#8217;t play well with the demographic segments Biden needs to recover from President Donald Trump in order to win in battleground states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania — and far-left ideas are still new to voters in other, newer swing states like Arizona and Nevada.
The strategy is, of course, noticeable: Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), have both tacked right since being confirmed as the 2020 Democratic presidential ticket. Neither has expressed outright support even for positions that younger, more liberal Democrats see as top priorities, like defunding and disbanding police departments and committing significant resources to racial justice. Neither has expressed a willingness to replace the current Affordable Care Act with a more comprehensive &#8220;Medicare-for-All&#8221; type system, and Biden seems to echo Trump, not Sanders, on issues like trade, infrastructure, and manufacturing.
Sanders may not be the right person to give advice, regardless, as he commanded a smaller percentage of the primary electorate in 2019-2020 than he did in 2016, drawing fewer voters overall — though he did succeed in some early contests where the Democratic field was particularly crowded.
As for Biden&#8217;s willingness to listen to Sanders, it seems, according to Sanders&#8217; team, that they&#8217;ve largely decided to ignore Sanders&#8217; suggestions.
“Senator Sanders is confident that Joe Biden is in a very strong position to win this election, but nevertheless feels there are areas the campaign can continue to improve upon,&#8221; a Sanders spokesperson told media. &#8220;He has been in direct contact with the Biden team and has urged them to put more emphasis on how they will raise wages, create millions of good paying jobs, lower the cost of prescription drugs and expand health care coverage.&#8221;
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Democrats are more divided than they appear according to numbers released by the Democratic National Committee following their nominating convention last week.
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/over-1000-democratic-delegates-voted-against-party-platform">Fox News reports</a> that of the 5,000 delegates that voted on the party&#8217;s platform, widely recognized as the most progressive Democratic Party platform in years, more than a thousand delegates &#8212; around 25% of all attendees &#8212; voted against the decision to approve the party&#8217;s official policies.
The situation reveals a breakdown in the party that could cost the Democrats in the coming years and indicates a vast difference between the &#8220;moderate&#8221; Democratic party, which fought to nominate former Vice President Joe Biden as its 2020 contender, and the growing progressive wing, which backed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
&#8220;The DNC revealed over the weekend that  3,562 delegates voted to approve the platform, while a total of 1,069 voted no, and 87 abstained,&#8221; Fox reported. &#8220;The number of convention delegates who voted no is roughly the same as the number of delegates pledged to progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. The populist lawmaker and &#8216;Medicare-for-all&#8217; champion was the last remaining rival to Democratic nominee Joe Biden in the primaries before suspending his White House bid and endorsing the former vice president in April.&#8221;
The number could give Biden&#8217;s team pause; although Sanders himself has pledged to back the former Veep, recent reports indicate growing unrest within the progressive caucus, and fear that once elected, Biden will not be as willing to embrace far-left policy as they expect.
Biden has already turned down a &#8220;Medicare-for-All&#8221; health care plan, refuses to endorse the &#8220;defund the police&#8221; movement and, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/blm-attacks-dnc-for-failing-to-fully-align-with-movement-calls-conventions-racial-justice-focus-lip-service">The Daily Wire reported Sunday</a>, encouraged Democratic platform committees to marginalize the official Black Lives Matter organization, even though Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris, made racial justice a central theme of the convention.
At least one Sanders convention delegate acknowledged acrimony.
“We were upset. There was pushback. There were emails and phone calls,” a Sanders supporter told Fox.
Only two Democratic legislators voted against the platform &#8212; Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) &#8212; both because the platform failed to include a fully single-payer health care plan.
Although the numbers are shocking, the discord is not necessarily unexpected &#8212; and Republicans, who raised eyebrows Sunday by refusing to issue an official platform for their own convention, may have decided to avoid a similar display of major, internal party fracture by avoiding policy altogether.
Instead of an official platform, the Republicans are pledging to &#8220;enthusiastically support&#8221; their nominee, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-no-new-2020-platform-trump-agenda">Fox News</a>. Instead of voting on changes, the RNC will leave the party&#8217;s 2016 platform intact.
&#8220;The RNC has unanimously voted to forego the Convention Committee on Platform, in appreciation of the fact that it did not want a small contingent of delegates formulating a new platform without the breadth of perspectives within the ever-growing Republican movement,&#8221; the RNC said in a statement Sunday.
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DNC Disaster? More Than A Thousand Delegates Voted ‘No’ On Democratic Party Platform

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Former President Barack Obama said that Democratic nominee Joe Biden and self-proclaimed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) had similar “goals.”
Obama’s comments about Biden’s agenda were reported in a profile of Biden’s candidacy published in <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/31/can-bidens-center-hold">The New Yorker</a> on Aug. 23. Biden has described himself as a “transitional” candidate toward a more progressive idea of government and has picked <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/3-things-you-need-to-know-about-kamala-harris-bidens-vp-pick">Sen. Kamala Harris</a> (D-CA), who has one of the most progressive voting records in the Senate, to run as his vice president.
“If you look at Joe Biden’s goals and Bernie Sanders’s goals, they’re not that different, from a forty-thousand-foot level,” Obama told The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos. “They both want to make sure everybody has health care. They want to make sure everybody can get a job that pays a living wage. They want to make sure every child gets a good education.”
Biden’s campaign during the Democratic primary cast itself as the moderate option, and many reporters and pundits consistently echoed the label. Outlets such as The New York Times and The Associated Press took the characterization a step farther and even cast Harris as a “pragmatic moderate” and “centrist” when she was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-biden-announces-kamala-harris-as-his-running-mate">named to the ticket</a>.
Obama’s former speechwriter, <a href="http://dailywire.com/news/former-obama-speechwriter-hilarious-that-media-calls-kamala-harris-a-moderate">Jon Favreau</a>, called the framing from media outlets “hilarious” and said that the Harris pick was a clear victory for the progressive wing of the Democratic Party during an Aug. 13 episode of the progressive podcast “Pod Save America,” which Favreau co-hosts.
“If you want to call Kamala Harris’ record in the Senate and her policies that she’s supporting now centrist or moderate, great. If that’s where the Overton Window has moved, then congratulations to all the progressive activists because you have f***in’ moved the s*** out of that window, that supporting the Green New Deal and, basically, Medicare For All is now moderate and centrist. Fantastic, I’ll take it,” Favreau said.
Obama acknowledged Biden’s leftward shift but said that the move was less reflective of a change in the Democratic nominee’s ideals and has more to do with the political environment inside the Democratic Party.
“A lot of times, the issue has to do with ‘How do we go about that, and what are the coalitions we need?’” Obama said. “What I think the moment has done is to change some of those calculations, not because necessarily Joe’s changed but because circumstances have changed.”
Obama also compared his own agenda while he was in office to Sanders’ socialist goals, saying that the Obama agenda “was at least as bold and aggressive as many of the young people’s agendas right now.” He blamed Congressional Republicans for derailing his agenda.
“If you asked Joe and I what regrets we might have, or what lessons we learned from my Administration, it’s not that we were insufficiently bold in what we proposed. It’s that we continued to believe in the capacity of Republicans in Congress to play by the rules, and to be willing to negotiate and compromise,” the former president said.
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Barack Obama: Biden’s And Sanders’ Agendas ‘Not That Different From A 40,000-Foot Level’

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Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) nominated Bernie Sanders for president on Tuesday night at the Democrat National Convention.
The original version of this report incorrectly stated that Ocasio-Cortez had snubbed Joe Biden by nominating Sanders, a mistake also made by NBC News. The DNC had apparently asked Ocasio-Cortez to second Sanders&#8217; nomination for president as a procedural requirement of the convention.
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Editor&#39;s note and clarification (2/2): 
Ocasio-Cortez was asked by the DNC to second Sanders&#39; nomination. The nomination is a procedural requirement of the convention. 
Ocasio-Cortez has previously endorsed Biden, &amp; her speech was similar in length to other nominating speeches.
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Ocasio-Cortez began by stating, &#8220;Good evening, bienvenidos, and thank you to everyone here today endeavoring toward a better, more just future for our country and our world, in fidelity and gratitude to a mass people’s movement working to establish 21st-century social, economic and human rights, including guaranteed health care, higher education, living wages and labor rights for all people in the United States.&#8221;
&#8220;A movement striving to recognize and repair the wounds of racial injustice, colonization, misogyny and homophobia,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;And to propose and build reimagined systems of immigration and foreign policy that turn away from the violence and xenophobia of our past. A movement that realizes the unsustainable brutality of an economy that rewards explosive inequalities of wealth for the few, at the expense of long-term stability for the many. And who organized a historic, grass roots campaign to reclaim our democracy.&#8221;
&#8220;In a time when millions of people in the United States are looking for deep systemic solutions to our crisis of mass evictions, unemployment, and lack of health care, en el espíritu del pueblo, and out of a love for all people, I hereby second the nomination of Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont for president of the United States of America,&#8221; she concluded.
Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s claim that Sanders led a &#8220;campaign to reclaim our democracy&#8221; comes after the 78-year-old socialist has repeatedly <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/485678-bernie-sanders-may-want-to-praise-joseph-stalin-too">praised</a> brutal communist dictators.
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BREAKING: In her Democratic National Convention Speech, <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> nominates Bernie Sanders for President. <a href="https://t.co/CW3nh0JauL">pic.twitter.com/CW3nh0JauL</a>
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Biden has <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShxwAMQCRiQ">stated</a> that, if elected, he would be one of the most &#8220;progressive,&#8221; or far-left, presidents in U.S. history. His running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), is <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/kamala_harris/412678/report-card/2019">ranked</a> by GovTrack, a non-partisan organization that tracks bills in Congress, as the &#8220;most liberal compared to All Senators.&#8221;
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Editor&#8217;s note: This report has been corrected after inaccurately stating that Ocasio-Cortez had snubbed Biden by nominating Sanders at the convention. 
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Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) nominated Bernie Sanders for president on Tuesday night at the Democrat National Convention. The original

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The Democratic National Convention featured Linda Sarsour, former leader of the Women’s March, as she hosted a caucus meeting for the Muslim Delegates and Allies Assembly.
The party’s apparent embrace of Sarsour is notable because of her history of anti-Semitic comments and support for the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction (BDS) movement to isolate and cripple Israel. The <a href="https://dw-site-staging.dailywire.com/news/rashida-tlaib-defends-latest-womens-march-board-emily-zanotti">Women’s March</a>, of which Sarsour was a longtime member, cut ties with her and two other board members accused of making anti-Semitic comments last year.
“The Democratic Party is not perfect, but it is absolutely our party in this moment,” Sarsour said in part of her afternoon address on Tuesday.
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Sarsour has found allies in some of the more radical Democratic members of Congress, even <a href="https://dw-site-staging.dailywire.com/news/watch-linda-sarsour-stumps-bernie-sanders-elect-molly-prince">stumping for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders</a> during his campaign for the Democratic nomination for president.
“At a time of a startling rise in white nationalism and anti-Semitism, I would be so proud to win,” Sarsour said at a Sanders campaign rally last year. “But also to make history and elect the first Jewish American president that this country has ever seen and for his name to be Bernard Sanders.”
Sarsour has also come to the defense of Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, who has her own history of making anti-Semitic comments and is a fellow supporter of the BDS movement.
“I am triggered by those who piled on Representative Ilhan Omar and incited a hate mob against her until she got assassination threats now giving condolences to our community. What we need you to do is reflect on how you contribute to islamophobia and stop doing that,” <a href="https://dw-site-staging.dailywire.com/news/womens-march-leader-linda-sarsour-says-shes-emily-zanotti">Sarsour tweeted</a> in March 2019.
Omar had been heavily criticized by both Republican and Democratic members of Congress, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, over comments Omar made widely seen as anti-Semitic. The backlash sparked a push in the House to pass a resolution condemning ant-Semitism, though the final copy of the resolution passed was expanded to condemn a wide range of hate.
Sarsour, then a leading representative of the Women’s March, <a href="https://dw-site-staging.dailywire.com/news/linda-sarsour-takes-credit-houses-weakened-anti-kassy-dillon">took partial credit</a> for the resolution that was eventually passed by Congress. She had characterized the initial draft of the resolution, which specifically targeted anti-Semitism, as “playing into the hands of the right” and “upholding the patriarchy.”
“So many of you know that our sister, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was under attack and being able to mobilize progressive leaders across the country to sign on to a letter to organize a press conference in support of Ilhan Omar, to call on the Democratic leadership to actually expand the language of the resolution to include condemning all forms of bigotry because that’s the kind of movement we are a part of,” Sarsour said in a video after making a fundraising pitch to supporters.
“The Women’s March is a movement that unequivocally rejects all forms of racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia,” Sarsour continued, “and that’s what we called on the Democratic leadership to do — that in our lifetime we made history with a resolution that is going to be in the public record for life.”
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‘Absolutely Our Party’: Democrats Embrace Linda Sarsour At National Convention

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The Democratic National Convention featured Linda Sarsour, former leader of the Women’s March, as she hosted a caucus meeting for the Muslim Delegates and

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Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib (MI) does not support the party&#8217;s 2020 platform.
The Michigan lawmaker said on Saturday that she can&#8217;t support the Democratic National Committee (DNC) platform because it does not include a plan for a single-payer health care system.
“Today, I cast my DNC ballot and voted NO on the proposed platform,” Tlaib wrote on Twitter. “I constantly hear from constituents demanding we push for a single-payer system and away from this for-profit system that is leaving people to suffer and die just because they cannot afford health care.”
&#8220;As a party, we must push for a future where every resident has the ability to thrive. That means we need a platform that works to rid our society of oppression and greed. Unfortunately, in my view this platform does not do enough,&#8221; she wrote.
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As a party, we must push for a future where every resident has the ability to thrive. That means we need a platform that works to rid our society of oppression and greed. Unfortunately, in my view this platform does not do enough. 2/2
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In a photo of her ballot posted to Twitter, Tlaib voted to nominate Sanders, not Joe Biden. Tlaib had endorsed Sanders during the primaries, but he dropped out of the race in April and Biden went on to win the required number of delegates.
The Democratic platform set to be approved at the party&#8217;s convention next week includes a public option for health care, but not a single-payer “Medicare for All” proposal that progressives such as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) support.
Sanders&#8217; supporters – known as &#8220;Bernie Bros&#8221; – could be key to a Biden win. In 2016, many stayed home as Hillary Clinton got soundly beat by President Trump. And on Sunday, Sanders sought to assuage his supporters who also aren&#8217;t happy with the Democrats&#8217; platform.
&#8220;I would say that the overwhelming majority of progressives understand that it is absolutely imperative that Donald Trump be defeated,&#8221; Sanders said on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week.&#8221;
&#8220;Obviously, there may be disagreement,&#8221; he told host George Stephanopoulos. &#8220;A lot of my supporters are not enthusiastic about Joe Biden. You know why? I ran against Joe Biden. But I think there&#8217;s an overwhelming understanding that Donald Trump must be defeated, Biden must be elected, and that the day after he is elected, we&#8217;re going to do everything we can to create a government that works for all of us.&#8221;
Sanders also expressed optimism that the battle for universal health care will continue if Biden is elected.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to continue the fight for Medicare for all. We have a health care system today that&#8217;s dysfunctional; too many people are uninsured; too many people are underinsured; too many people are going bankrupt because of medical bills. We pay almost twice as much per capita as the people of any other country. The function of health care is to guarantee health care to all, not make huge profits for the drug companies and the insurance companies. That fight continues the day after Joe Biden is elected president,&#8221; Sanders said.
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib Votes ‘No’ On Democratic Party Platform, Nominating Biden

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Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib (MI) does not support the party&#039;s 2020 platform. The Michigan lawmaker said on Saturday that she can&#039;t support the

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Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) has been on the presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential ticket for less than 24 hours, but already cracks are beginning to emerge in the Democratic consensus, as progressives react to Joe Biden&#8217;s decidedly non-progressive running mate and top Democratic strategists admit Harris wasn&#8217;t Joe Biden&#8217;s first choice.
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bernie-supporters-progressives-journalists-trash-biden-harris-ticket">Fox News reports</a> that supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who begrudgingly signed on to the Biden campaign are now concerned that Harris, who was, at one time, a law-and-order prosecutor in California, won&#8217;t be nearly as progressive as other candidates Sanders could have selected.
Sanders, himself, was supportive of the selection, tweeting, &#8220;Congratulations to @KamalaHarris, who will make history as our next Vice President. She understands what it takes to stand up for working people, fight for health care for all, and take down the most corrupt administration in history. Let’s get to work and win.&#8221;
Briahna Joy Gray, Sanders&#8217; former communications director, who has been skeptical of Biden since Sanders exited the race back in April, wasn&#8217;t as rosy.
&#8220;We are in the midst of the largest protest movement in American history, the subject of which is excessive policing, and the Democratic Party chose a &#8216;top cop&#8217; and the author of the Joe Biden crime bill to save us from Trump. The contempt for the base is, wow,&#8221; Gray said on Twitter.
Other progressives, like Michael Tracey, brought up Harris&#8217; abortive presidential campaign, pointing out that Harris never won a single state and was bested in the presidential debates by Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.
&#8220;Kamala&#8217;s presidential campaign was a total humiliating disaster. One of the worst of all time, considering the amount of unearned hype she received. Did everybody miss that, or what?&#8221; Tracey tweeted.
Worse still, it appears mainstream Democrats, including senior Obama campaign advisor David Axelrod, are now admitting that Biden was pressured into accepting Harris as a running mate, and that his first choice was Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
&#8220;Others Biden considered may have fit more comfortably into partnership with him,&#8221; Axelrod wrote in an op-ed for CNN. &#8220;He reportedly clicked well with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, but she would not have fulfilled the desire of those who prioritized a candidate of color.&#8221;
&#8220;Whitmer, a White moderate pick, also would have raised questions among supporters of progressive champion Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, widely viewed after a lifetime of advocacy and a strong campaign for president as a tough, brilliant and capable policymaker,&#8221; Axelrod continued, unintentionally revealing how far Harris was down the list of potential candidates. &#8220;But some also saw Warren as the most polarizing of the potential candidates, who would have been offered by Trump as evidence that the moderate Biden is merely a Trojan Horse for the left.&#8221;
The White House, at least, was prepared for Harris&#8217; candidacy; the Trump re-election campaign has rolled out dozens of email missives over the last 24 hours and is reportedly readying an all-out assault on Harris beginning next week.
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UH-OH: Sanders Supporters Melt Down Over Harris Pick, Dems Admit Harris Wasn’t ‘First Choice’

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Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) has been on the presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential ticket for less than 24 hours, but already cracks are beginning to

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Speaking to <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/07/how-trump-could-win-reelection/612205/">The Atlantic</a> about the upcoming presidential election and the choice between voting for President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, Nina Turner, the co-chair of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) 2020 presidential campaign, snapped, “It’s like saying to somebody, ‘You have a bowl of sh*t in front of you, and all you’ve got to do is eat half of it instead of the whole thing. It’s still sh*t.”
Turner was not the only Sanders devotee who eviscerated Biden in the article. Harvard professor Cornel West asserted, “We have to be true to ourselves and acknowledge that Biden is a mediocre, milquetoast, neoliberal centrist that we’ve been fighting against in the Democratic establishment.”
Some Sanders supporters have demanded that Biden select either Sanders or Turner as his running mate. A <a href="https://www.change.org/p/democratic-national-committee-joe-biden-must-chose-nina-turner-or-bernie-sanders-for-vp">petition</a> on Change.org titled, &#8220;Joe Biden must choose Nina Turner or Bernie Sanders for VP,&#8221; stated:
<blockquote>The progressive wing of the Democratic Party is sick and tired of being ignored. We will only unite behind Joe Biden if we are absolutely certain he is willing to work with us. The only way he can earn that trust is to pick a true progressive for VP. Specifically, Bernie Sanders or Nina Turner. We will gladly unite behind Joe Biden if he makes this compromise. If not, we won’t vote in November or we will just vote 3rd party.</blockquote>
On July 20, an <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/progressive-shortlist-vp-biden/">open letter</a> to Biden from California delegates committed to Sanders also included Turner among a short list of candidates they said were acceptable as vice presidential picks:
<blockquote>In order to meet this historic moment, Democrats must select an exceptional progressive Vice Presidential candidate who will both inspire the 90 million Americans who did not vote in 2016 to cast a ballot this November and lead America into a new era of equality, compassion, and economic justice. As 2020 DNC delegates representing progressives of California, the state with the largest delegation to the presidential nominating convention, we enthusiastically recommend as nominees for Vice President: Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA), former State Senator Nina Turner (D-OH), Representative Karen Bass (D-CA).</blockquote>
In January, Turner <a href="https://www.thestate.com/opinion/article239206718.html">wrote</a>, &#8220;In choosing between the two Democratic Party candidates atop the polls, African American voters have a consequential decision to make: Will our community side with former Vice President Joe Biden, who has repeatedly betrayed black voters to side with Republican lawmakers and undermine our progress? Or will we stand with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and a movement that has been fighting for racial and economic justice since the civil rights era?&#8221;
“As a recent NBC News headline said of Biden’s time in the Senate: ‘Biden didn’t just compromise with segregationists. He fought for their cause,’” she continued. “The NBC report quoted the NAACP’s legal director saying that one Biden-backed measure ‘heaves a brick through the window of school integration.’”
In February, appearing on CNN’s “Newsroom,” Turner claimed, &#8220;So, for all of the people trying to make hay over the word, Senator Sanders is not talking about socialism in a traditional sense, in terms of what happens in Europe. He never once said that the government should take over the production of all goods and services in this country.&#8221;
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-grills-sanders-campaign-over-socialism-they-respond-by-quoting-shakespeare-making-false-claim">The Daily Wire</a> pointed out:
<blockquote>Sanders has repeatedly advocated for nationalization ranging from the 1970s – when he &#8220;urged the nationalization of most major industries,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/14/politics/kfile-bernie-nationalization/index.html">CNN</a> – to his current socialist campaign for president, where is he advocating for forcing everyone off of their private health insurance plans and onto a government run health care system, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/health/private-health-insurance-medicare-for-all-bernie-sanders.html">The New York Times</a>.</blockquote>
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Bernie Sanders Co-Chair: Voting For Biden Like Eating ‘S***’

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Speaking to The Atlantic about the upcoming presidential election and the choice between voting for President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden,

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Presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden&#8217;s deal with supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was never officially finalized, despite overt efforts on the part of Biden&#8217;s campaign to include Sanders supporters at the highest levels of his presidential effort.
Now, Sanders delegates &#8212; more than 360 in total &#8212; say they may not be willing to play along with the more moderate candidate&#8217;s proposed party platform, and they&#8217;re pledging to withhold support of the if the Democrats don&#8217;t include an explicit endorsement of Sanders&#8217; &#8220;Medicare-for-All&#8221; plan.
&#8220;More than 360 delegates, most of whom back Sanders, have signed on to a <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfY5U1TnEbx2YcFC9s-xU45Qac6p0j9RVr6we-fOMWkWHYqzg/viewform?fbclid=IwAR0CXreUUGhOQTldHppvIS6IXgeH433Z7fznOaIr71LxBCaAQOY7v5O11lQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pledge</a> to vote against the Democratic Party’s platform if it does not include support for &#8216;Medicare for All,'&#8221; <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/27/bernie-supporters-medicare-single-payer-381972">POLITICO reported Monday</a>. &#8220;They argue that single-payer health care is an urgent priority amid a worldwide pandemic and the biggest unemployment crisis since the Great Depression.&#8221;
“This pandemic has shown us that our private health insurance system does not work for the American people. Millions of people have lost their jobs and their health care at the same time,” Sanders delegate Judith Whitmer, who organized the effort told the newsmagazine. “There’s people leaving the hospital now with millions of dollars in medical bills. What are we going to do about that?”
Major progressive groups like Progressive Democrats of America and the Bernie Delegates Network are behind the petition and plan to publicize it in an effort to force Democrats left on health care. The groups told POLITICO that they are not the ones being divisive &#8212; it is a party leadership that refuses to listen to the will of the grassroots that is fracturing the coalition.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to fight like hell for Biden. And there&#8217;s no contradiction between doing that and supporting this pledge,&#8221; one supporter told the outlet. They also say they still plan to vote for Biden to get the nomination.
Biden has been coy about this health care plan, even as his campaign rolls out major, detailed policy documents on other issues. <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/blog/meet-press-blog-latest-news-analysis-data-driving-political-discussion-n988541/ncrd1030086#blogHeader">According to NBC News</a>, it&#8217;s unlikely Biden will support a full overhaul of the current health care system, though, given that the Affordable Care Act, also known as &#8220;Obamacare,&#8221; was a signature achievement of Biden&#8217;s former employer, the Obama administration.
Instead, Biden is expected to reinstate the individual mandate that requires all Americans to purchase some form of insurance, NBC says, and will limit the associated plan price increases by allowing &#8220;consumers to spend [no more than] 8.5 percent of their income on insurance.&#8221;
Even though the specifics aren&#8217;t public yet, the cost for Biden&#8217;s health care plan is. As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-rolls-out-policy-plan-with-a-shocking-10-trillion-price-tag">The Daily Wire reported last week</a>,  Biden&#8217;s full platform could cost upwards of $10 trillion. His health care plan accounts for a full $750 billion of that price tag, and that&#8217;s without information on efforts to curb &#8220;systemic racism,&#8221; which Biden&#8217;s policy team says will soon be built into all aspects of the candidate&#8217;s spending plan.
Biden has proposed a $4 trillion tax increase, mostly on high-income earners and corporations he claims do not pay taxes.
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Bernie Sanders Delegates Plot Convention Rebellion If Dems Don’t Put Medicare-For-All In Party Platform

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Former New York Governor George Pataki (R), who ran for president as a Republican in 2015 for over 6 months, warned in an interview published this week that the radical elements of the Democratic Party seem to hold influence over presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
“I’ve been disappointed by the ability of the leftist activists in the party like Bernie Sanders and [Alexandria] Ocasio-Cortez to apparently influence him in real and significant ways,” Pataki told <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/18/george-pataki-warns-big-apple-on-brink-nyc-is-going-to-die/">the New York Post.</a>
“The Biden who was the moderate Democrat for a long time serving in Congress might not be the Biden who we would see as president,” said Pataki.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-goes-far-left-aoc-gets-top-campaign-spot-to-push-radical-green-new-deal-after-she-cheered-job-losses-last-month">The Daily Wire</a> reported back in May, “a source with direct knowledge” told <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/12/politics/ocasio-cortez-biden-campaign-task-force-climate-change/index.html">CNN</a> that the Biden campaign had retained Ocasio-Cortez as a climate change task-force co-chair, an apparent move to bolster his credibility with the far Left.
Biden has also teamed up with Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to create a “Unity” task-force that will push the official Democratic platform even further to the Left.
The <a href="https://joebiden.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/UNITY-TASK-FORCE-RECOMMENDATIONS.pdf">platform</a> involves creating a federally funded “civilian corps of unarmed first responders” to handle 911 calls deemed nonviolent, making public colleges free for 80% of American families, forgiving federal student loan debt after 20 years, and promising to never “cut, privatize, or weaken” social security, among over 100 other pages of recommendations.
In response to the “Unity” platform, Vice President Mike Pence <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-is-a-trojan-horse-for-a-radical-agenda-mike-pence-warns">recently warned</a> that Biden was adopting an agenda that made it look more like Sanders won the Democratic nomination than the former vice president.
“When you consider Joe Biden’s agenda and his embrace of the radical Left, it’s clear: Joe Biden would be nothing more than an autopen president,” said Pence. “A Trojan horse for a radical agenda; so radical, so all-encompassing, that it would transform this country into something utterly unrecognizable.”
“The Biden-Sanders agenda would set America on the path of socialism and decline,” said Pence. “And as our nation endures this time of testing, we’d do well to tell our neighbors and friends that it’s also a time for choosing.”
The Biden campaign also recently hired a video producer who tweeted a meme calling police officers worse than pigs, and has used the “Defund The Police” hashtag, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-campaign-official-mocked-cops-as-worse-than-pigs">Fox News</a>. The staffer has since deleted the tweets, reports the news agency.
While Biden doesn’t explicitly endorse the “Defund The Police” movement, he recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-says-theres-systemic-racism-in-everything-we-do">told </a>CBS News he does support “conditioning federal aid to police, based on whether or not they meet certain basic standards of decency and honorableness. And, in fact, are able to demonstrate they can protect the community and everybody in the community.”
During the same interview, the former vice president also said, “we have to, in my way, change the way that the entire criminal justice system functions and the prison system. It should turn into a rehabilitation system, not just punishment.”
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Leftists Seem To Have Influenced Biden In ‘Real And Significant Ways,’ Says Former NY Governor

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Presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden debuted a series of &#8220;unity&#8221; guidelines, authored with the help of a Joe Biden-Bernie Sanders &#8220;unity task force,&#8221; and while a number of the Vermont socialist&#8217;s most progressive policies aren&#8217;t listed among the &#8220;compromise&#8221; positions, a great deal of the guidance pulls directly from Sanders&#8217; agenda.
The &#8220;unity&#8221; plan is designed to prevent clashes between Biden supporters and Sanders supporters during the Democratic National Convention&#8217;s policy platform sessions, and the task force is charged with making recommendations directly to the DNC to avoid conflicts between moderates and progressives, <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/09/sanders-hails-biden-for-largely-moderate-unity-proposals/">per the New York Post</a>.
Sen. Bernie Sanders backed the proposal in a statement issued Wednesday.
“While Joe Biden and I, and our supporters, have strong disagreements about some of the most important issues facing our country, we also understand that we must come together in order to defeat Donald Trump, the most dangerous president in modern American history,&#8221; he said. “Though the end result is not what I or my supporters would have written alone, the task forces have created a good policy blueprint that will move this country in a much-needed progressive direction and substantially improve the lives of working families throughout our country.&#8221;
But there&#8217;s very little from Sanders&#8217; agenda left off the unity guidelines, aside from his &#8220;Medicare for All&#8221; plan, which would have required Biden, one of the primary backers of the Obama administration&#8217;s Affordable Care Act, to abrogate his support for his former boss&#8217;s signature achievement.
The guidelines do not include support for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s &#8220;Green New Deal,&#8221; but the missive is just the first of many and touches only briefly on environmental issues. The guidelines do recommend that Democrats “commit to eliminating carbon pollution from power plants by 2035 through technology-neutral standards for clean energy and energy efficiency.”
A primary focus of the first set of &#8220;unity guidelines,&#8221; however, is education &#8212; and for that, they pull extensively from Sanders&#8217; own platform. In fact, the guidelines destroy nearly all competition for public schools.
&#8220;The plan bans for-profit private charter schools, opposes private school vouchers, and any policies that would take taxpayer-funded resources away from the public school system,&#8221; according to ABC News. &#8220;The platform aims to put an end to the school-to-prison pipeline and pledges &#8216;adequate resources&#8217; for hiring guidance counselors, social workers, and school psychologists.&#8221;
The plan also calls for &#8220;the reinstatement of Title IX protections for transgender students and protections for LGBT students from discrimination,&#8221; <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-bernie-sanders-unity-task-forces-release-dnc/story?id=71670170">per ABC News</a>.
On criminal justice reform, they guidelines pull directly from Sanders&#8217; policy sheet, recommending a &#8220;civilian corps&#8221; of non-police first responders who can handle 911 calls instead of police, according to Republican strategist Steve Guest.
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The guidelines also crib generously from Sanders&#8217; social security policy.
As Guest notes, the &#8220;unity&#8221; policy does seem to make one thing clear: Democrats are concerned that progressives will defect from the party and refuse to support Biden as the nominee, even though the specter of President Donald Trump&#8217;s re-election looms large. That concern largely makes Sanders &#8212; not Biden &#8212; the controlling force in the 2020 election and, if Biden wins, could lead to a much more progressive administration than previously predicted.

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Joe Biden And Bernie Sanders Debut ‘Unity’ Guidance That Pulls From Sanders Agenda

Presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden debuted a series of &quot;unity&quot; guidelines, authored with the help of a Joe Biden-Bernie Sanders

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) may be in line with the Democratic Party when it comes to the 2020 contender, but his progressive supporters may not be, according to a Wednesday report in <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/506303-progressives-wary-as-biden-talks-compromise-with-gop">The Hill</a>.
Although the Biden campaign has made every effort to court and win progressive support &#8212; including a push to put progressive and Democratic Socialist superstars like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on its policy teams &#8212; the relationship between the Biden campaign and certain far-left elements of the party is still tenuous and after a week of campaign announcements focusing largely on Republican (and former Republican) support for the former Veep, progressives are speaking out.
“Biden is transparently taking a bet to win over a group of anti-Trump Republicans but at the expense of what? Potentially losing some of the largest movements in history?” progressive activist and Sanders supporter Nomi Kurst told The Hill. “His excitement is extremely low and that should always be alarming for candidates. It’s the Hillary Clinton strategy all over again.&#8221;
Biden has been open about courting &#8220;compromise&#8221; voters, particularly so-called &#8220;Never Trump&#8221; Republicans and other conservatives who fear giving the current president another four years in office. Groups like the Lincoln Project are openly targeting Trump from the center-right, and just last week, a group of former George W. Bush administration staffers announced their own effort to unseat Trump, a super PAC named &#8220;43 Alumni for Biden.&#8221;
Biden has welcomed these efforts with open arms, and speaking over the weekend, stressed his ability to extend an olive branch across the aisle.
&#8220;It’s how our government was designed to work,” Biden told the National Education Association, the nation&#8217;s largest teachers union. “I’ve done it my whole life. No one’s ever doubted my word, and I’ve been able to bring Democrats and Republicans together in the United States Congress to pass big things, to deal with big issues.”
Progressives say they may bolt the party, though, if Biden keeps up efforts to woo Republicans, stressing that partisan rancor is at an all-time high and Republicans are likely to oppose Biden policy efforts once he takes office.
“It’s very hard to understand why after going through eight years of the Obama administration that Joe Biden thinks we’ll be able to carve out grand deals with Republicans,” one activist told The Hill. “The way we’ll get Republicans to the table is by having a progressive movement in the Democratic Party that is strong enough to force them there.&#8221;
That is, of course, unlikely. Although Sanders was the last remaining threat to Biden in the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, it appears his market-share has diminished since 2016. The Vermont socialist did not &#8220;expand the electorate&#8221; as he claimed, and his numbers with young voters and voters of color &#8212; two very important 2020 constituencies &#8212; declined from 2016 to 2020.
But if they can&#8217;t force Biden to the left on the campaign trail, progressive groups say, they&#8217;ll try to force Biden to the left in the White House, according to at least one far-left strategist: “We should be investing time in building a much more powerful movement that will have to, without a doubt, fight a President Biden and a tidal wave of corporate interests who never go away and will have the usual access to the White House.&#8221;
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As you already know, we’ve descended into full idiocy. The world — with its cancel culture and PC police, its race riots and pandemic panic — has gone insane, and there’s no end in sight.
Think that’s hyperbole? Then consider this: CNN wants to ban such “racist” words and phrases as “blackball,” “sold down the river,” “whitelist” and, of course, “master bedroom.” The liberal cable network notes that the term “master bedroom” first appeared in 1926 — 63 years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves — but adds this wonderful line, “While it’s unclear whether the term is rooted in American slavery on plantations, it evokes that history.”
What’s the point of all the madness, you ask? It’s all to discredit President Trump, which CNN and most every liberal “news” outlet has been painting as a blatant racist since before he moved into the White House.
And for CNN, it’s a game they play openly and brazenly.
Case in point: Trump’s visit to Mount Rushmore on Independence Day weekend. CNN called the massive carved sculptures of Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt a “monument of two slave owners” on “land wrestled away from Native Americans.”
But the monument was something very different when Democratic President Barack Obama visited the monument.
“Barack Obama is campaigning in South Dakota,” CNN anchor Ron Marciano said in 2008. “That state’s primary is Tuesday. Obama arrived there late last night and got a good look around Mount Rushmore — it’s quite a sight if you haven’t seen it.”
“Barack Obama is in South Dakota today,” added fellow CNN anchor Betty Nguyen. “He arrived there last night. Take a look at this. He got a good glimpse of the majestic Mount Rushmore.”
On Friday, when Trump visited, somehow the site had morphed into a racist ode to slave owners.
“At a time of racial unease, when protesters are tearing down statues of slaveholders and calling for the names of Confederate generals to be removed from army bases, the Rushmore event is a reminder that Trump is fighting to preserve these relics of heritage and history that some see as symbols of oppression,” CNN’s Washington correspondent Joe Johns said. “And to indigenous people, Mount Rushmore, with four white presidents, two of whom were slave owners, is one of those symbols.”
CNN correspondent Leyla Santiago echoed the sentiment. “President Trump will be at Mount Rushmore, where he’ll be standing in front of a monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled away from Native Americans told that, uh, be focusing on the effort to ‘tear down our country’s history,’” she said.
During her report, a chyron on screen said, “Reexamining ‘Independence’ Day” (yes, the word “Independence” in quotes). And at the end, anchor Jake Tapper said simply: “All right. Leyla Santiago, with that report, thank you so much.”
CNN also turned to an “expert” — Sioux Falls Argus Leader columnist Stu Whitney — who said: “I think that is a source of concern for people that see this certainly within a state with a Native American population nearly 10% and much higher in Rapid City, concerned about a place that has a lot of spiritual significance. And historical significance when you look at what they and most historians consider to be broken promises and broken treaties.”
Many astute viewers caught the blatant two-faced bias. Trump campaign Deputy Director of Communications Zach Parkinson posted a video clip from 2016, when then-presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders visited the monument.
“In 2016, CNN’s Jeff Zeleny called Mount Rushmore a ‘monument to four great American presidents’ &#8230; Bernie Sanders said ‘this is our country at its very best,’ called it an ‘incredible achievement,’ and said it ‘really does make one very proud to be an American,’” Parkinson wrote on Twitter.
He added: “Fascinating how CNN called Mount Rushmore ‘majestic’ and ‘quite a sight’ in 2008 when Obama visited, but now it&#8217;s a symbol of slavery and stolen land.”
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Fascinating how CNN called Mount Rushmore &quot;majestic&quot; and &quot;quite a sight&quot; in 2008 when Obama visited, but now its a symbol of slavery and stolen land<a href="https://t.co/3sV1ZEfW9L">https://t.co/3sV1ZEfW9L</a> <a href="https://t.co/GTIH9tzOim">https://t.co/GTIH9tzOim</a> <a href="https://t.co/5Vu6uQp4XS">pic.twitter.com/5Vu6uQp4XS</a>
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And he noted that CNN’s Jim Acosta — a longtime sufferer of Trump Derangement Syndrome — gushed when Obama visited Mount Rushmore, calling it in 2008 a “fitting stop for a presidential contender.”
Others chimed in. “Pursuant to the new moral stricture promulgated this week by the NYT &amp; CNN — that Mount Rushmore is a shameful monument to racism and white supremacy — both CNN and Bernie Sanders ought to repent for this praise they jointly heaped on it in 2016,” said Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept.
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Pursuant to the new moral stricture promulgated this week by the NYT &amp; CNN &#8212; that Mount Rushmore is a shameful monument to racism and white supremacy &#8212; both CNN and Bernie Sanders ought to repent for this praise they jointly heaped on it in 2016:<a href="https://t.co/0MRNO2PJ2j">pic.twitter.com/0MRNO2PJ2j</a>
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Said GOP Rapid Response Coordinator Steve Guest: “This is what media bias looks like.”
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Flash forward to 2020, CNN: “President Trump will be at Mount Rushmore, where he’ll be standing in front of a monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled away from Native Americans.”
This is what media bias looks like. <a href="https://t.co/2Je43scrRp">https://t.co/2Je43scrRp</a>
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Ryan Fournier, founder and co-chairman of Turning Point Action, asked simply: “What changed?”
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In 2008, Barack Obama visited Mt. Rushmore. 
CNN called it “majestic” and “quite a sight.”
Trump visits Mt. Rushmore and they call it “A monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled away from Native Americans.”
What changed? 🤔
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The answer: The president now is a Republican, not a Democrat.
And to CNN, that’s all that matters.
*Joseph Curl ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2014 and covered the White House for a dozen years. He can be reached at josephcurl@gmail.com and on Twitter at @JosephCurl. A version of this article ran previously in The Washington Times.
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The vast majority of us know who Adolf Hitler was. Even with the slightest level of historical understanding, we know that he was an evil man with an evil ideology responsible for millions of deaths. As a result, anyone who is accused of holding even a fraction of Hitler’s political views is judged with an understandable level of scorn, and those who openly align themselves with such an ideology are rightly exiled from mainstream society.
This is an easy position to understand. After all, one only has to look at the unimaginable violence ushered in by the totalitarian fascism of Nazi Germany to know that such an ideology is based on entirely immoral principles. However, if death tolls mean that Nazism, fascism, and white supremacy are evil ideologies, why is the same basic logic not applied to the politics of the far Left?
Under the ruthless communist dictatorship of the Soviet Union alone, according to the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/100-years-of-communismand-100-million-dead-1510011810">Wall Street Journal</a>, “victims include 200,000 killed during the Red Terror (1918-22); 11 million dead from famine and dekulakization; 700,000 executed during the Great Terror (1937-38); 400,000 more executed between 1929 and 1953; 1.6 million dead during forced population transfers; and a minimum 2.7 million dead in the Gulag, labor colonies and special settlements.”
After the murder of at least 16,600,000 civilians, surely those with even a tangential connection to this regime would be wholeheartedly rejected by a political party who claim to advocate for peace and tolerance? Quite the opposite! Bernie Sanders, who has praised dictators and leftist regimes on multiple occasions – and even <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6989969/Topless-Sanders-banqueting-Soviet-Union-attacked-U-S-foreign-interventions.html">spent his honeymoon</a> in the Soviet Union – now leads the so-called “progressive” wing of the Democratic Party, which represents the party base.
If we take other communist and socialist regimes into account, including China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Cuba, and Venezuela, the estimated death count rockets to <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=H1jsgYCoRioC">almost 100 million people</a>. This number is more than five times greater than that of Nazi Germany, and yet the continued promulgation of the politics of communism, socialism, and Marxism is permitted in a way that would be (thankfully) unimaginable if it were applied to Nazism or fascism.
The shocking acceptance of radical Leftism simply must end if we hope to prevent continued damage in the wake of this evil ideology. When politicians such as Bernie Sanders praise or effectively apologize for the actions of murderous dictators, they should be cast out of polite society with the same fervor as if someone said, “Hitler may have killed lots of Jews, but the roads sure were pretty!”
Sanders <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/us/bernie-sanders-fidel-castro-florida.html">said</a>: “When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing? Even though Fidel Castro did it?”
This problem exists even at the pinnacle of American Leftism. The fact that a potential vice presidential candidate survived <a href="https://youtu.be/t8ZWtqIzmQI">refusing to reject Marxism</a> – while offering a disingenuous apology for praising Fidel Castro – should terrify anyone who values freedom and liberty.
The number of graves beneath history’s bloodthirsty communist and socialist regimes is staggering.
Had it not been for the United States, these numbers would have continued to rise as radical Leftism spread across the globe. The United States must continue to stand as the world’s greatest single force against totalitarianism and tyranny. This crucial moral battle will become impossible if we continue to allow these ideologies to fester within our borders.
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HAWORTH: The Deadly Double Standard Of Communism Vs. Fascism

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Key Democrat legislators, including socialist Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and members of the Congressional Black Caucus, are pushing back on calls to &#8220;defund the police,&#8221; Politico reports Tuesday, even as progressives are pushing forward with the plan in cities like Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Los Angeles, California.
In <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/bernie-sanders-is-not-done-fighting">a New Yorker profile</a> published Tuesday, Sanders, whose campaign platform included calls for massive social and political change, said he opposes defunding and disbanding police departments and is, instead, committed to &#8220;transforming&#8221; most police departments by providing officers with better resources to handle calls involving individuals suffering from mental illness or deprivation.
&#8220;Do I think we should not have police departments in America? No, I don’t,&#8221; Sanders told The New Yorker. &#8220;There’s no city in the world that does not have police departments. What you need are—I didn’t call for more money for police departments. I called for police departments that have well-educated, well-trained, well-paid professionals.&#8221;
Sanders suggested making law enforcement jobs higher paid and more appealing to those with higher levels of education, but as for abolishing police departments? &#8220;I don’t agree,&#8221; Sanders said.
It seems other key Democrats agree. The <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/06/08/nancy-pelosi-defund-police-question/">Daily Caller reports</a> that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) refused to respond to questions about defunding police departments at a press conference yesterday, instead referring reporters to legislation proposed early Monday.
&#8220;On if they support Defund the Police movement, @speakerpelosi, and @RepKarenBass don’t say directly but say they have more legislation coming that deals with ‘jobs and justice,'&#8221; NBC News reporter Leigh Ann Caldwell tweeted, adding that the Speaker, particularly, was eager to pass the buck. &#8220;Pelosi says they need to &#8216;rebalance some of our funding&#8217; and have those debates at the local level.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/08/defund-police-democrats-307766">Politico reports Tuesday</a> that even members of the Congressional Black Caucus, largely the driving force behind anti-racism and law enforcement reform efforts at the federal level, are pressing back on progressive calls to defund the police.
&#8220;I think it can be used as a distraction and that’s my concern,” Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA), the CBC&#8217;s chairwoman told reporters. “I think the intent behind it is something that I support — the idea that communities need investments.”
“We’re keeping our eyes on the prize, and that needs to be the story. State and local will do what state and local needs to do,” Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE.), another member of the CBC added. “We are the Congress. What we’re doing here today is our role.”
Rep. Joe Manchin (D-WV), who has a solid reputation as a more moderate Democrat legislator, put it more bluntly, according to Politico: “You can’t defund the police, that’s stupid, it’s crazy and anyone who talks about that is nuts,” he said. “You have to have the police.”
Since the bumper sticker slogan surfaced at anti-racism protests last week, even progressives have tried to water down calls for &#8220;defunding,&#8221; arguing that the phrase means simple &#8220;reforms&#8221; or &#8220;community reinvestment,&#8221; while refusing to alter the term.
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Bernie Sanders, Key Dems Pushing Back On ‘Defund The Police’ As Progressives Press Forward

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Bernie Sanders&#8217; staffers who aren&#8217;t on board with the socialist Vermont Senator&#8217;s shift to supporting former Vice President-turned-presumptive 2020 Democratic nominee Joe Biden have declared war on those who are, and the battle royale between factions spilled over onto social media over the weekend.
Sanders and his top advisors, Faiz Shakir and Analilia Mejia, are reportedly in the middle of inking a deal with Biden&#8217;s team which would preserve Sanders&#8217; delegates but allow for Sanders and his allies to exert influence over the Democratic party platform, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/03/staffers-lash-out-in-bernie-world-meltdown-299545">according to Politico</a>.
But the tete-a-tete isn&#8217;t sitting well with career progressives and former hardcore Sanders&#8217; supporters like David Sirota, who exploded in a rage at Shakir and Meija over the weekend, accusing them of throwing in with so-called Beltway insiders.
“I don&#8217;t know who needs to hear this, but many of us don&#8217;t want to hear career Beltway political operatives boasting about task forces while this sh*t is going on right now,” Sirota said, referring to ongoing racial unrest &#8212; a prime moment for progressives who have been working on the issue for some time. “Jfc — try to be a little less tone-deaf.”
Sanders&#8217; current spokesman, Politico says, responded with a charge of his own: that Sirota, had absconded with confidential campaign documents.
“[D]amn right,” Mike Casca shot back, “real change happens when you steal an email list from the campaign and use it to create your own paid newsletter. why can’t anyone see that? anyway, subscribe if you can.”
It didn&#8217;t end there. Casca&#8217;s parting shot set off a wave of aggressive Tweets on the part of current Sanders allies, all defending their decision to throw in with more &#8220;moderate&#8221; Democrats like Biden in an effort to be part of a larger coalition charged with defeating President Donald Trump in November.
&#8220;I hate engaging, but this is ridiculous,&#8221; Shakir wrote on Twitter in response to charges he was selling out to Biden&#8217;s team. &#8220;Trump&#8217;s gassing protesters, but I’m the real enemy. For what? Trying with every fiber of my being to get Bernie elected but coming in 2nd. And then trying to get the 1st place finisher to move in a progressive direction and defeat Trump.&#8221;
That coalition has yielded some results for Sanders &#8212; or, at least, better results for Sanders this time around than in 2016, when his refusal to get on board with the Hillary Clinton for President campaign left progressives shut out of the platform and convention.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), a key Sanders surrogate, is on Biden&#8217;s environmental policy team, and Biden is reportedly considering publicly backing her &#8220;Green New Deal.&#8221; Sanders, who may have been out of the headlines altogether by this point in the nomination process, is being tapped to help flesh out the Biden campaign&#8217;s platform on income inequality.
But the battle for Sanders continues.
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‘Bernie World’ Melts Down As Staffers Go Public In Sanders Campaign Civil War

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Former Vice President Joe Biden could clinch the Democratic presidential nomination as early as this Tuesday, if Washington, D.C., goes ahead with its Democratic primary.
Eight states will hold their primaries on Tuesday, June 2nd, many of them make-up primaries, for elections that would have been held during late March, April, or May, but were canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. Washington, D.C., had its primary scheduled for June 2nd, and the vote will go ahead as planned.
Biden, who is the Democrats&#8217; presumptive 2020 presidential nominee, has yet to technically &#8220;clinch&#8221; the nomination &#8212; that is, earn the 1,991 delegates necessary to claim the nomination outright through a first-round convention vote. Currently, Biden stands at 1,566 delegates to Sen. Bernie Sanders&#8217; (I-VT)  1,007, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/june-2-primaries">according to Fox News</a>, which previewed Tuesday&#8217;s elections on Monday morning.
Biden needs just 425 more delegates to secure his position and there are 479 delegates available on Tuesday.
There is one hiccup: Sanders and other candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination have not removed their names from contention on most state ballots.
Sanders, for one, is preserving his campaign in order to collect enough delegates to have an impact on the Democratic party platform, which will also be voted on at the Democratic National Convention, regardless of whether it is an in-person or fully online event. Others like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MN), have wrapped their efforts, but have made no concerted effort to force states to scrub their names from ballots.
&#8220;I will stay on the ballot in all remaining states and continue to gather delegates,” Sanders said when wrapping his presidential bid. “We must continue working to assemble as many delegates as possible at the Democratic convention where we will be able to exert significant influence over the party platform and other functions.”
He went on to ink a deal with Biden&#8217;s campaign to keep his delegates.
In some states holding make-up elections, candidates like Warren and Sanders were still active at the time of their original primaries and will be available choices on make-up ballots.
Joe Biden may be the presumptive nominee, but until he clinches the nomination outright, there is still a chance of a brokered convention &#8212; a convention where no candidate wins a statistical majority of delegates throwing the decision to a second convention vote. At that point, although Biden is still the frontrunner, the party could choose to oust the former Veep and replace him with a more viable option.
So far, Biden is running about ten points ahead of President Donald Trump nationally and within four or five points of Trump in most battleground states, leaving him a strong candidate in the 2020 presidential election, but the presidential campaign has yet to start in earnest and Biden has achieved his lead largely by staying out of the spotlight, leaving national polls more of a referendum on Trump&#8217;s performance and less of a political contest.
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Joe Biden Set To Clinch Democratic Nomination Tuesday After DC Primary

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has fully committed to supporting former Vice President Joe Biden, and now his delegates will too &#8212; if they still want to be Sanders delegates, that is.
The <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sanders-delegates-biden-agreement_n_5ec5e47bc5b63c61f51bd3e2">HuffPost reports</a> that, after a series of high-profile incidents concerning former Sanders staffers and members of Sanders&#8217; delegate coalition, the Vermont socialist is making his confirmed delegates sign a &#8220;loyalty pledge&#8221; promising they will not openly criticize Joe Biden. The pledge includes a &#8220;social media policy&#8221; and a &#8220;code of conduct agreement.&#8221;
&#8220;The Sanders campaign sent out the 5-page agreements that threaten delegates can be removed the delegation should they violate any provisions,&#8221; HuffPost says, citing the Washington Post, which first got wind of the deal. &#8220;The campaign also asks signatories to &#8216;refrain from making negative statements about other candidates, party leaders, Campaigns, Campaign staffers, supporters, news organizations or journalists.'&#8221;
Sanders has struggled to keep his supporters, former staffers, and delegates from attacking Biden, even as Sanders himself has led the way on forging a compromise with the more &#8220;moderate&#8221; presumptive nominee, and major Sanders surrogates, like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), have risen to prominent roles on Biden&#8217;s advisory committees.
Sanders&#8217; former press secretary, Briahna Joy Gray, has been openly opposed to allowing Biden to take the nomination despite remaining primaries, tweeting, &#8220;I don&#8217;t endorse Joe Biden&#8230;I supported Bernie Sanders because he backed ideas like <a class="PrettyLink hashtag customisable" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MedicareForAll?src=hash" rel="tag" data-query-source="hashtag_click" data-scribe="element:hashtag">#MedicareForAll</a>, cancelling ALL student debt, &amp; a wealth tax. Biden supports none of those.&#8221;
The delegate pledge targets positions like that directly, warning, “Before tweeting or posting from your personal social media accounts, ask yourself these questions: If this appeared on the front page of The New York Times, would it compromise Bernie Sanders’s message, credibility, or reputation?”
&#8220;This Campaign is about the issues and finding solutions to America’s problems. Our job is to differentiate the senator from his opponents on the issues — not through personal attacks,&#8221; the code of conduct says.
Sanders aides defended the pledge, telling the HuffPost that delegates are expected to take their job seriously, and if they can&#8217;t ascribe to a certain level of professionalism, they may not deserve their positions.
“When delegates attend the Democratic convention, they will be representing Sen. Sanders, the ideas he ran on and the millions of working people who supported his campaign,” Sanders’ campaign spokesman said. “That is a serious responsibility and we’re asking them to follow a basic code of conduct while carrying out that duty.”
Although the directive came from Bernie Sanders, its likely Joe Biden pressed the pledge in an effort to avoid the issues that plagued failed 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton&#8217;s relationship with her former opponent. Sensing that Sanders had been &#8220;robbed&#8221; of his rightful place at the top of that ticket, Sanders&#8217; supporters staged something of a mutiny, refusing to cast ballots for Clinton.
Biden, knowing he&#8217;s likely running on a razor-thin margin against President Donald Trump, particularly in battleground states, needs to avoid that same bad press, particularly among likely Democrat voters.
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Bernie Sanders Makes Delegates Sign A Pledge Promising They Won’t Bash Biden

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has fully committed to supporting former Vice President Joe Biden, and now his delegates will too -- if they still want to be

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Now that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has signed on to former Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign, leaving many of his supporters without a leader and his operation struggling to figure out what&#8217;s next, progressives are &#8220;in despair&#8221; and in political trouble, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/18/progressives-democratic-party-despair-255675">per a Politico report</a> Monday.
Sanders promised that the Democratic &#8220;Establishment&#8221; would not stand in the way of a progressive &#8212; even socialist &#8212; agenda, but &#8220;not only did the &#8216;establishment&#8217; stop Sanders,&#8221; Politico says, &#8220;it stamped out the candidacies of a string of left-wing insurgents, leaving the progressive movement reeling and in a state of despair.&#8221;
&#8220;Three highly-touted liberal House candidates — Jessica Cisneros in Texas, Robert Emmons in Illinois, and Morgan Harper in Ohio — lost their primary races against more moderate members of Congress,&#8221; the outlet continues. &#8220;The movement has also had limited influence on the proposals House Democrats have put forward to address the coronavirus, with leadership rejecting its most ambitious ideas.&#8221;
The most visible progressive leigislators &#8212; the &#8220;squad&#8221; &#8212; are notably vulnerable. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is facing a primary challenge from a more &#8220;moderate&#8221; Democrat with ties to her constituents in the Bronx, who are notoriously concerned that Ocasio-Cortez has spent the last two years raising her national profile rather than addressing local concerns. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is under heavy scrutiny for a series of potential campaign finance and personnel issues.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) is facing a primary challenge from Detroit City Council president Brenda Jones, who narrowly lost to Tlaib in 2018. Jones was appointed to represent Michigan&#8217;s 13th district after former Rep. John Conyers resigned in 2017, but faced questions of whether she could serve in Congress and lead Detroit at the same time, making her run for the seat in 2018 controversial. She faced a 6-way primary that included Tlaib, and lost the seat to Tlaib by fewer than 1,000 votes.
Jones declared her intent to run against Tlaib back in late April, triggering progressive panic.
Elsewhere, progressive Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) is likely to lose to Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-MA), the more &#8220;moderate&#8221; option, and the one &#8220;progressive&#8221; win &#8212; Marie Newman, who defeated Rep. Dan Lipinski in Illinois &#8212; is being credited to mainstream Democrat groups, not Democratic socialists.
Worse still is Sanders&#8217; former operation, according to a different report <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/15/bernie-sanders-base-in-disarray-259514">from Politico</a>. Sanders staffers are now in separate camps, operating a handful of different PACs, and rarely communicating or sharing information. Organizing networks are &#8220;on the verge of falling apart.&#8221; Sanders&#8217; PAC from 2016, &#8220;Our Revolution,&#8221; has been all but winless.
There are &#8220;no networks&#8221; or master lists of progressive volunteers or donors to help upstart campaigns; the Senator&#8217;s lists have all been migrated over to the Biden campaign, leaving progressives empty handed.
Sanders has been quiet since endorsing Biden several weeks ago, though some of his supporters, including Ocasio-Cortez are now on Biden policy teams. Sanders, instead, has been laying low. Over the weekend, he told media that his supporters will back Biden but that he intends to do legwork on the issue &#8212; and there seems to be plenty to do.
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‘Squad’ Doomed? Progressives Face String Of Losses, Supporters in ‘Disarray’

Now that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has signed on to former Vice President Joe Biden&#039;s campaign, leaving many of his supporters without a leader and his

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