CNN’s Dana Bash Says Dems Showed Their ‘Intolerance’ By Vilifying Bernie Sanders Over Joe Rogan Interview

CNN anchor Dana Bash argued on Monday that Democrats’ criticism of Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for appearing on “The Joe Rogan Experience” revealed a lack of tolerance within the party.

Sanders, on “State of the Union” Sunday told Bash that he was unjustifiably “vilified” by “some of the Democratic establishment” for appearing on Joe Rogan’s podcast in 2019 during his 2020 presidential campaign. Bash, on “CNN This Morning,” said that Democrats’ reaction to Sanders’ podcast appearance highlights their “intolerance,” despite their assertion that “their whole mission is to be tolerant.” (RELATED: ‘I Cannot Stay In This Party’: Democrats Continue To Blame, Point Fingers Following Historic Election Loss)

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“That to me is such a prime example of where Democrats have kind of lost those people. Now, the point I was making with him is that there are a lot of things that Joe Rogan says and believes that a lot of Democrats just totally shun. He’s said not great things about some social issues that Democrats don’t agree with,” Bash said. “He doesn’t support vaccines. And so that is part of the reason why, when Bernie Sanders went on the show, he got vilified. But him getting vilified by a lot of people on the left is case in point of the intolerance among a lot of people in the Democratic Party who claim that their whole mission is to be tolerant.”

Sanders said in a statement posted to X on Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss to President-elect Donald Trump was due to the Democratic Party neglecting working-class voters.

“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” he wrote. “First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.”

Trump appeared on Rogan’s podcast on Oct. 25, recording a three-hour episode that has garnered over 48 million views on YouTube as of Monday. Harris had considered appearing on his show, but it did not pan out as Rogan said her campaign had wanted him to “travel to her” to record the interview.

The popular podcast host asserted on an Oct. 30 episode that he had extended an “open invitation” to the Harris campaign while the vice president was in Texas for an Oct. 25 rally, but she missed the “opportunity.” Rogan also said Friday that the Harris campaign had requested topic “restrictions,” which he accepted, and inquired about whether he edits his interviews, which the host made clear he does not.

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