Former Democrat vice presidential candidate and Sen. Joe Lieberman told Newsmax TV on Monday that he “hoped” President Joe Biden would govern in the same “center-left” manner as he did when the two served in the U.S. Senate for 24 years.
Lieberman appeared on “John Bachman Now” to promote his interest in school choice/voucher programs, which Biden has pledged to end.
“Some of the left in the Democratic Party seems more left than before,” said Lieberman, 78, a senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013 and Al Gore’s running mate in the 2000 presidential election. “The good news, from my perspective – and there’s a little personal friendship involved in this opinion, is that leader of the Democratic Party is Joe Biden, President Biden. And he’s a center-left Democrat.
“Now he’s going to be pulled and pushed by different parts of the party, but I hope he is as president as he was for the 24 years that I served with as a senator, somebody who was always looking to make agreements with Republicans, and never went too far left. That’s where America is. We’re in the center-left. And that’s where the Democratic Party has to be and that’s where I continue to work to make sure it is.”
Lieberman switched his party affiliation in 2006 to independent and defeated Democrat candidate Ned Lamont to win a fifth term in the U.S. Senate.
His moderate positions, such as the one on school choice and vouchers, have alienated him from some in his former party, particularly socialists such as New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, of whom he said, “I certainly hope she’s not the future.”
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