[rad-green] Citing Joe Biden's Troubling Voting Record, Bernie Sanders Warns 'My God... Trump Will Eat His Lunch'

*https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/27/citing-joe-bidens-troubling-voting-record-bernie-sanders-warns-my-god-trump-will-eat*
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/27/citing-joe-bidens-troubling-voting-record-bernie-sanders-warns-my-god-trump-will-eat>

*Common Dreams          December 27, 2019*





*Citing Joe Biden's Troubling Voting Record, Bernie Sanders Warns 'My
God... Trump Will Eat His Lunch'The Vermont senator said defeating Trump in
2020 will require "ideas that are going to excite and energize millions of
people who right now are not particularly active in politics, and who may
not vote at all."by Jake Johnson, staff writer*

*Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks as former Vice President Joe Biden
listens during the Democratic presidential primary debate at Loyola
Marymount University on December 19, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.
(Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)*

Warning that President Donald Trump cannot be defeated by an establishment
Democrat running a "same old, same old type of campaign," Sen. Bernie
Sanders said in an interview
<https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-12-26/bernie-sanders-medicare-homelessness-trump>
with
the *Los Angeles Times* editorial board published Thursday that Trump would
have a field day with former Vice President Joe Biden's record of support
for the Iraq War, job-killing trade deals, and other destructive policies.

"If you're a Donald Trump and you got Biden having voted for the war in
Iraq, Biden having voted for these terrible, in my view, trade agreements,
Biden having voted for the bankruptcy bill. Trump will eat his lunch."
—Sen. Bernie Sanders

"Joe Biden is a personal friend of mine, so I'm not here to, you know, to
attack him," Sanders said. "But my God, if you are, if you're a Donald
Trump and you got Biden having voted for the war in Iraq, Biden having
voted for these terrible, in my view, trade agreements, Biden having voted
for the bankruptcy bill. Trump will eat his lunch."

The *Los Angeles Times* interview was not the first time Sanders has
distinguished his own record from Biden's by highlighting the former vice
president's support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. During a Democratic
primary debate in September
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/09/13/challenging-biden-iraq-war-vote-sanders-denounces-bloated-trump-pentagon-budget>,
Sanders noted that, unlike Biden, he "never believed what Cheney and Bush
said about Iraq."

"I voted against the war in Iraq, and helped lead the opposition," the
Vermont senator said.

Sanders told the *Times* that defeating Trump in 2020 will require a
candidate who embraces "ideas that are going to excite and energize
millions of people who right now are not particularly active in politics,
and who may not vote at all"—and the Vermont senator argued he is the
Democratic contender best positioned to deliver such a campaign.

"The reason I believe that I am the strongest candidate, and the reason I
believe our approach is right is if you want a large voter turnout, if we
understand that there are tens of millions of people in this country who
don't vote, who've kind of given up on the political process... I think I
am by far the strongest candidate to reach out to those people," Sanders
said. "I think I'm the strongest candidate to bring together a multiracial
coalition of African Americans, of Latinos, of Asians."

Though Trump polls as one of the most unpopular
<https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-obama-poll-rating-least-most-popular-us-presidents-ipsos-a8213971.html>
presidents
in U.S. history, Sanders warned against underestimating him, as many did in
the 2016 election.

"Anyone who underestimates Donald Trump as a candidate, for a variety of
reasons, will be very mistaken," said Sanders. "He is going to be a very,
very strong candidate. He certainly has a very strong base. He will have
unlimited amounts of money to campaign on. He is a pathological liar. He
will merge in an unprecedented way agencies of government with his
campaign, because he doesn't particularly believe in the rule of law. So he
is going to be a very, very tough opponent."

"The only way that you beat Trump," Sanders added, "is by having an
unprecedented campaign, an unprecedentedly large voter turnout."

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