Bernie Sanders tried to thwart criticisms that Kamala Harris, who is somehow the Democrat nominee for president, both went too far left in the past, and is now flip-flipping on her prior stances.
The website GovTrack, which tracks U.S. Congress, found that Harris was “the most left-leaning senator in 2019” - in a Senate that includes Socialist Sanders. After Harris became the nominee that statistic from GovTracker went viral on social media - leading to GovTracker deleting their tanking, and claiming that it was because her “entire tenure in the senate showed a different story.” Never before has someone’s “entire tenure” been taken into account on a GovTracker rating for a specific year - nor did they think of assessing Harris’ “entire tenure” until right after she joined the presidential race.
Sanders was pressed by NBC’s Kristen Welker "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 she is abandoning her progressive ideals?"
Sanders replied, with a truly fantastic admission he didn’t realize he was making: "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."
We already knew this, of course, but it’s amazing to see it actually admitted for a change.
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