Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (I) appeared on Sunday’s “Meet the Press” and admitted what many of us already assumed—Kamala Harris’ recent flip-flops on issues like fracking and taxing tips are attempts to appear more moderate to the electorate while hiding her commitment to radical progressivism.
Admittedly, those aren’t his exact words—that’s my interpretation—but see if you see it any differently:
🚨QUIET PART OUT LOUD🚨
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 8, 2024
Welker: "Do you think Kamala is abandoning her progressive ideals?"
Bernie: "I think she is trying to be pragmatic and do what she thinks is right in order to win the election." pic.twitter.com/qtwmgui7vd
She’s just doing whatever she has to do to win, even if it means hiding her true plans:
HOST KRISTEN WELKER: Let me zoom out a little bit. You have described Vice President Kamala Harris as a progressive. She has previously supported Medicare for All, now she does not. She's previously supported a ban on fracking, now she does not. These, Senator, are ideas that you have campaigned on. Do you think that she is abandoning her progressive ideals?
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: No, I don't think she's abandoning her ideals. I think she's trying to be pragmatic and doing what she thinks is right in order to win the election.
Sanders went on to yammer on about his usual “democratic socialist” ideals like massive taxes and the punishment of corporations, and said that while Harris was aligned with him to a degree, he wishes she was even more far-left.
KRISTEN WELKER: Well, let me just ask you, then, big picture. Do you still consider Vice President Kamala Harris to be progressive, Senator?
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: I do. Look, she and I – she is not where I am. But I think, for example, when she talks about making the child tax credit permanent, and you know we did that in the American Rescue Plan, we lowered childhood poverty by 40%. Kristen, we should not have, as the richest country on earth, one of the highest rates in childhood poverty in the world. When she talks about building 3 million units of affordable housing, that's a big deal because we have a major housing crisis in America. You know, when she talks about passing the PRO Act to make it easier for workers to join unions, that's a big deal because we have to expand the union movement so that workers get decent wages.
So yes, her views are not mine, but I do consider her progressive. (emphasis added)
Harris can flip and flop and try to mask her radicalism, but all we have to do is look at her record to know what we could expect from a Harris-Walz administration.
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The truth is, we have seen that Harris will say and do anything to win and will do whatever she can to be all things to all people. In the end, though, she is a true progressive, and all we have to do to see how well progressivism does is to take a look at her home state of California, where she served as attorney general and as a senator, and the city where she once served as district attorney, San Francisco.
She wants to bring the California way to the rest of the nation, and no amount of fake posturing will change that basic fact.
Ok Bernie, so Kamala is either...
— Brick Suit (@Brick_Suit) September 8, 2024
●A flip-flopper.
●A liar.
●A flip-flopper and a liar. pic.twitter.com/cDg7NtsdLx
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