Former President Donald Trump said that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) threw Vice President Kamala Harris "under the bus" simply to get elected, Fox News reported. Sanders believes Harris is still as left as ever.
On Meet the Press on NBC Sunday, Sanders was asked whether Harris "abandoned her progressive ideals" in her recent swivel to the right. Sanders said he believed it was a political calculation.
"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," he told anchor Kristen Welker.
Trump mocked Harris over this exchange. "Bernie Sanders just said that Kamala only changed her Marxist policy positions for the Election — She’ll change back very quickly!" Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday.
Unfortunately for Harris, Sanders said the quiet part out loud. Harris has been forced to abandon her awful policies, such as "Medicare-for-all" and her crusade against fracking, as she courts voters.
Trump took to Truth Social again Monday to point out the consequences of Sanders' statement. "Bernie Sanders really threw Comrade Kamala Harris under the proverbial 'BUS,'" Trump wrote.
"Essentially said, very clearly, that she is a total phony. Once a Marxist, always a Marxist!" Trump added.
Harris is in a conundrum now that she's been deemed the Democratic presidential nominee by fiat. Her radical policies did not get her anywhere in the 2020 Democratic primary, and now she'll have to shun them to have any hope of winning the general election.
There's no doubt Harris has been trying to cast off the policies she held dear in the past, but her record is undeniable. In 2019, GovTrack ranked Harris as the most liberal U.S. Senator, the New York Post reported.
The website has since retracted that rating, but the facts speak for themselves. Harris once called for mandatory gun confiscation in the form of a buyback, called for decriminalizing illegal immigrants, and sought to ban fracking and plastic straws.
However, her most radical view was that criminals involved in the 2020 riots in Minnesota should be bailed out. A tweet appealing for people to "chip in now" to an organization that posted bail for them is still available on her account on X, formerly Twitter.
If you’re able to, chip in now to the @MNFreedomFund to help post bail for those protesting on the ground in Minnesota. https://t.co/t8LXowKIbw
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) June 1, 2020
Harris is arguably the most leftwing candidate to run for president. She knows she'll lose if the American people can see that, but even Sanders has to admit that her recent change of heart is all about political posturing.
