House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy Friday accused presumptive Democrat nominee Joe Biden of "surrendering to the Socialists" through his growing shift toward the far-left side of his party.
"(They said ) that he created a unity pack with Bernie Sanders," the California Democrat said on Fox Business' "Mornings With Maria." "That wasn't a pact. That was surrendering to the socialists."
Sanders earlier this week said that if elected, Biden would be the "most progressive president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt," but McCarthy said that Biden has been in office for 40 years, but "he did not do much with the economy...why do we think that is going to change when he has surrendered to the socialists?"
Biden, he added, wants to defund the police, at a time when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is standing by while statues are being destroyed, including the Saint Sarah statue in her district in San Francisco and one of Christopher Columbus in her hometown of Baltimore.
"What does she say? 'People will do what they do,'" said McCarthy. "This is what leadership would look like under Joe Biden."
McCarthy also talked about the push to reopen the nation's schools, insisting that while there are schools in some coronavirus hotspots that will probably need to stay closed, children and families in more safe parts of the country shouldn't be punished.
"You cannot (allow) a whole generation to fall back without being educated," said McCarthy.
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