On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stated that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) is who he wanted 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris to pick and Walz has “passed some very good legislation.”
CNN host asked, “[Y]ou actually wanted Vice President Harris to pick Gov. Walz as her running mate. What did you make of their debut tonight in Philadelphia?”
He added, “And the other thing that I am impressed by the Governor, and others have said this, this is a guy who was a public school high school teacher, … he was a football coach, he was the ranking member of the Veterans’ Committee in the U.S. House, and we certainly want somebody at the highest levels of government who’s going to be fighting for the veterans of this country.”
Sanders continued, “And, very significantly, as the Governor of the state of Minnesota — and the reason that he’s popular is — he has been pro-labor. He has helped raise the minimum wage for gig workers. He has made sure that children in Minnesota do not go hungry. Now, some people may think that’s a radical idea, I don’t. And I think one of the misunderstanding[s] that exists in the corporate media and in the political establishment is that standing up for working people, expanding Medicare to cover dental, hearing, and vision, expanding Social Security so that the wealthy start paying their fair share of taxes into the system so we could raise benefits, that ain’t radical. More than 70% of the American people want programs like that, including a majority of Republicans. So, I think to the degree that the Vice President and the Governor can stay focused on economic issues that benefit working people, demand that the billionaire class start paying their fair share of taxes, I think they’re going to, not only win, I think they have a chance to win pretty big.”
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