Joe Biden's close relationship with Bernie Sanders and willingness to engage with progressives could spell a difference between the 2020 presidential contest and former Hillary Clinton's failed 2016 bid, Sanders said.
Former Vice President Joe Biden's close relationship with Sen. Bernie Sanders and willingness to engage with progressives could spell a difference between the 2020 presidential contest and former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's failed 2016 bid, Sanders said in an interview in The New Yorker magazine published on Tuesday.
Sanders competed against Clinton in 2016, and was the last Democrat standing against Biden during the 2020 primary contest. Democrats loyal to Clinton, with whom Sanders had an icy rapport, have criticized Sanders for what they saw as his insufficient effort to get his progressive backers behind her in 2016 after she defeated him in the primary.
This time around, Sanders again lost to a candidate to centrist candidate located ideologically to his right. But, Sanders said, Biden's apparent willingness to shift to the left on some issues could move the needle. The two candidates announced at the time of Sanders's endorsement that their campaigns would form joint task forces to work out compromises on policy in six major areas: The economy, education, climate change, criminal justice, immigration reform and health care.
"He has been open and personable and friendly, but his views and my views are very different, in some areas more than others," Sanders said. He added: "But Joe has been open to having his people sit down with some of the most progressive folks in America, and that's a good sign." Also in the interview, Sanders, a self-avowed democratic socialist, held out hope that a future candidate with his beliefs will be more successful than he was.
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