Sen. Bernie Sanders Rips Kamala Harris’ 2024 Campaign: ‘Too Many Billionaires…’ [WATCH]

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) sharply criticized former Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign during an interview on CNN’s State of the Union over the weekend, claiming her advisers were too close to wealthy donors and failed to push a strong working-class agenda, as reported by The New York Post.

CNN co-host Dana Bash played a clip from Sanders’ recent remarks in West Virginia, where he told an audience, “One of the reasons, in my view, that Kamala Harris lost the election is, she had too many billionaires telling her not to speak up for the working class of this country.”

Sanders, 83, described Harris as “a friend of mine” but argued that “her core consultants were heavily influenced by very wealthy people.”

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He questioned how a presidential campaign could proceed “and not develop a strong agenda which speaks to the economic crises facing working families.”

Sanders highlighted several economic concerns, saying:

“You have more income and wealth inequality today than we have ever had. You have 60% of our people living paycheck to paycheck. You have got a health care system which is broken and dysfunctional. And despite spending so much, we’re the only major country not to guarantee health care to all people. How do you not talk about those issues?”

When Bash noted that Harris had spoken about affordability on the campaign trail, Sanders responded that she had done so “in a vague” way before cutting himself off, adding, “I don’t want to rehash that campaign.”

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Sanders then emphasized that “the clue to Democratic victories is to understand that you have got to stand unequivocally with the working class of this country. You need an agenda that speaks to the needs of working people.”

Bernie calls for an ‘agenda that speaks to the ECONOMIC CRISES facing working families’

Says ‘more income INEQUALITY than ever’ as ‘60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck’

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He asked rhetorically, “Is it a radical idea that we join every other major country on Earth and guarantee health care to all people? Is that a radical idea? You tell me how many people are talking about that. Is it a radical idea to say that we have got to raise the minimum wage to $17 an hour?”

The former Democratic presidential candidate in 2016 and 2020 dismissed claims that his proposals are too far left, saying critics are frustrated that “the government is too bureaucratic and not responsive.”

He added, “Do you think that, in America, with all of our genius, all of our capabilities, we, spending so much money, cannot provide a high-quality system that guarantees health care to all people? And do you think people here don’t know that? They know. They know we can do it.”

On July 30, Harris announced she would not run for governor of California next year, leaving the possibility of a 2028 presidential bid. The next day, she revealed plans to release a book, 107 Days, recounting her unsuccessful campaign to succeed former President Joe Biden.

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