Former President Trump mocked opponent Vice President Kamala Harris, after Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., mentioned Harris had deserted her far-left coverage positions “so as to win the election.”
“Bernie Sanders simply mentioned that Kamala solely modified her Marxist coverage positions for the Election — She’ll change again in a short time!” Trump posted to his Fact Social account on Monday.
Throughout an interview Sunday on NBC, the progressive senator was requested about Harris abandoning far-left coverage positions she beforehand embraced, akin to a ban on fracking and help for “Medicare-for-all.”
“Do you suppose she is abandoning her progressive beliefs?” NBC anchor Kristen Welker requested Sanders on “Meet the Press.”
BERNIE SANDERS SAYS HARRIS DROPPING FAR-LEFT POLICIES ‘IN ORDER TO WIN THE ELECTION’
Former President Trump mocked Vice President Harris as “thrown below the bus” by Sen. Bernie Sanders explaining her coverage flip-flops.
“No, I don’t suppose she’s abandoning her beliefs,” he replied. “I feel she’s making an attempt to be pragmatic and doing what she thinks is correct so as to win the election.”
Sanders went on to reiterate that whereas they didn’t maintain the identical views on all the things, he nonetheless thought of Harris a progressive.
Trump claimed Sanders had uncovered Harris as a “whole phony.”
“Bernie Sanders actually threw Comrade Kamala Harris below the proverbial ‘BUS.’ Basically mentioned, very clearly, that she is a complete phony. As soon as a Marxist, all the time a Marxist!” he wrote in one other submit to Fact Social.
The Harris marketing campaign and the White Home didn’t reply to requests for remark by Fox Information Digital about Sanders’ characterization of Harris.
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Former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris will face off on the ABC Information Presidential Debate on Tuesday. (Getty Photographs)
A marketing campaign spokesperson beforehand confirmed to Fox Information Digital that Harris had modified a number of of her key coverage positions and was taking a “pragmatic” strategy to “carry all sides collectively.”
“Whereas Donald Trump is wedded to the acute concepts in his Undertaking 2025 agenda, Vice President Harris believes actual management means bringing all sides collectively to construct consensus,” spokesperson Mia Ehrenberg mentioned in a press release. “It’s that strategy that made it potential for the Biden-Harris administration to attain bipartisan breakthroughs on all the things from infrastructure to gun violence prevention. As President, she is going to take that very same pragmatic strategy, specializing in commonsense options for the sake of progress.”
Trump 2024 Nationwide Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt echoed Trump’s assertion that Harris was being misleading about her coverage stances.
“Senator Sanders is saying what the Harris marketing campaign does not need the American individuals to know. And that’s, Kamala Harris is a typical profession politician who lies to get elected. She’s making an attempt to run away from her document over the previous 4 years however she will be able to’t, as a result of it’s the Harris-Biden administration,” Leavitt instructed Fox Information on Monday.
At Tuesday evening’s ABC Information Presidential Debate, Trump will “lastly maintain her accountable for the failures of the previous 4 years” and “over her profession” on immigration, inflation and crime, Leavitt argued.
