{"id":19635,"date":"2020-03-04T14:24:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T12:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=19635"},"modified":"2020-03-04T14:25:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T12:25:21","slug":"sanders-slams-biden-as-super-tuesday-makes-it-a-two-man-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/?p=19635","title":{"rendered":"Sanders Slams Biden as Super Tuesday Makes It A Two-Man Race"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sen. Bernie Sanders took aim at former Vice President Joe Biden, his chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, at a rally here, as Super Tuesday results trickled in from across the country. Yahoo reports.<\/p>\n

Sanders did not utter Biden\u2019s name, but the senator predicted that he would win the nomination and defeat President Trump, because the race would become a \u201ccontrast of ideas.\u201d He then laid into Biden\u2019s long record in Washington, which he compared with his own.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of us in this race led the opposition to the war in Iraq. You\u2019re looking at him. Another candidate voted for the war in Iraq. One of us has spent his entire life fighting against cuts in Social Security. … The other candidate has been on the floor of the Senate calling for cuts to Social Security,\u201d Sanders said.<\/p>\n

Sanders continued attacking Biden, who scored numerous victories in Tuesday\u2019s contests and cemented his status as a leading contender for the Democratic nomination.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of us led the opposition to a disastrous trade agreement which cost millions of good-paying jobs, and the other candidate voted for disastrous trade agreements. One of us stood up for consumers and said, \u2018We will not support a disastrous bankruptcy bill,\u2019 and another candidate represented the credit card companies and voted for that disastrous bill,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

With strong performances in the first three states on the primary calendar \u2014 Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada \u2014 Sanders had emerged as the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. However, on Feb. 29, Biden scored an overwhelming win in South Carolina that helped him catch up to Sanders\u2019s delegate lead and gave him much-needed momentum heading into Super Tuesday, when 14 states were holding primaries.<\/p>\n

As of this writing, Sanders has earned victories in Utah, Colorado and his home state of Vermont. He was also projected to win California, the biggest state up for grabs.<\/p>\n

Biden, meanwhile, won in Alabama, Arkansas, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Minnesota, North Carolina, Virginia and Texas. As of 3 a.m., Maine was too close to call.<\/p>\n

Despite Biden\u2019s surge, Sanders declared in his speech that \u201cIt is our campaign, our movement, which is best positioned to defeat Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou cannot beat Trump with the same old, same old kind of politics,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cWhat we need is a new politics that brings working-class people into our political movement, which brings young people into our political movement and which, in November, will create the highest voter turnout in American political history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sanders has made promising to transform the electorate with an influx of new voters a cornerstone of his campaign. But while he has succeeded in winning over Latino voters in the early states, overall turnout has not reached record levels, and young voters, who largely favor Sanders, have not come out in force.<\/p>\n

Sanders concluded his speech by expressing confidence in his chances of winning California.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen later tonight. We\u2019re doing well in Texas right now. We won Colorado, and I\u2019m cautiously optimistic that later in the evening we can win the largest state in this country, the state of California,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He went on to take one more thinly veiled shot at Biden.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut no matter what happens … if it comes out to be a campaign where we have one candidate who is standing up for the working class and the middle class, we\u2019re going to win that election. And if we have another candidate who has received contributions from at least 60 billionaires, we\u2019re going to win that election,\u201d Sanders said.<\/p>\n

Early on in his speech, Sanders noted it was the 31st anniversary of his first election as mayor of Burlington, Vt. He said he had not been expected to win that race, but ultimately prevailed by just 10 votes, a situation he compared to the presidential election.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we began this race for the presidency, everybody said it couldn\u2019t be done,\u201d Sanders\u00a0 said. \u201cBut tonight, I tell you with absolute confidence, we are going to win the Democratic nomination, and we are going to defeat the most dangerous president in the history of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sen. Bernie Sanders took aim at former Vice President Joe Biden, his chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, at a rally here, as Super Tuesday results trickled in from across the country. Yahoo reports. Sanders did not utter Biden\u2019s name, but the senator predicted that he would win the nomination and defeat President Trump, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4220,388],"tags":[10426,1669,10425,2046,3112,1484,3458,2348,7811],"class_list":["post-19635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-slide","tag-a-two-man","tag-as","tag-biden","tag-makes","tag-race","tag-sanders","tag-slams","tag-super","tag-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19638,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19635\/revisions\/19638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aldiplomasy.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}