Joe Biden on Sunday warned that his chief Democratic presidential primary rival Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., would damage party candidates in congressional races if he’s the chosen nominee in November.
In an interview on ABC News’ “This Week,” the former vice president, fresh off a commanding win in the South Carolina primary, said a Sanders presidential candidacy would offer “a stark choice.’
“He’ll have great trouble bringing along other senators, keeping the House of Representations, winning the Senate and down ballot initiatives,” Biden said, adding: “It’s not about whether we restore the soul of the Democratic Party, it’s about restoring the soul of the entire country.”
In a separate interview on NBC News’ “Meet The Press,” Biden argued that Sanders’s positions are “very controversial.”
"The idea that you’re going to find $60 ... trillion dollars – not going to have to raise taxes on middle class people” on a Medicare For All plan,” he argued as a case in point “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 also criticized Sanders for his change of tone about pledged delegates, stating now that the candidate with the most should be the party nominee.
“He didn’t think that when Hillary [Clinton] had the most pledged delegates that she shouldn’t be the nominee,” he told “This Week.”
“All of a sudden he’s had an epiphany,” he added, declaring, “The process has to play out… I’m not even certain he’ll have the most delegates.”
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