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Bernie Turns On Kamala In Scathing Critique Of 2024 Bid

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) turned out a scathing critique of former Vice President Kamala Harris and her 2024 presidential bid, saying that she’d relied too much on the counsel of billionaires who had steered her away from speaking on behalf of American workers.

Sanders spoke with CNN anchor Dana Bash on Sunday’s broadcast of “State of the Union,” and she asked him to address a comment he’d made about Harris at a recent rally in West Virginia.

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Bash began with a clip of from the rally, in which Sanders told the audience, “One of the reasons, in my view, that Kamala Harris lost this election is she had too many billionaires telling her not to speak up for the working-class of this country.”

“Ouch,” Bash reacted before she asked Sanders to clarify.

“Well, no, I think, I mean, I don’t think that that’s — I like her, she’s a friend of mine, but her core consultants, you know, were heavily influenced by very wealthy people,” Sanders said. “How do you run for president and not develop a strong agenda which speaks to the economic crises facing working families? You know, more income and wealth inequality today than we’ve ever had. You have 60% of our people living paycheck to paycheck. You’ve got a health care system which is broken and dysfunctional, and despite spending so much, we’re the only major country not to guarantee health care to all people. How do you not talk about these issues?”

“She talked about affordability —” Bash prompted.

Sanders objected: “Well, but in a vague — I don’t want to rehash that campaign, but I think the clue to Democratic victories is to understand that you’ve got to stand unequivocally with the working class of this country. You need an agenda that speaks to the needs of working people.”

Just two months before the election, Sanders sang a different tune. He claimed then that Harris was being “pragmatic” in hiding her own Marxist tendencies so that she could win the election.

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