PELLA, Iowa -- In one of his most direct confrontations yet with his top rival in the Iowa caucuses, former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday called out Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont for not being a Democrat even as Sanders makes a competitive run for that party's presidential nomination. Biden
PELLA, Iowa — In one of his most direct confrontations yet with his top rival in the Iowa caucuses, former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday called out Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont for not being a Democrat even as Sanders makes a competitive run for that party’s presidential nomination. Biden also jabbed Sanders’ record on gun control in among his most detailed remarks on the matter to date.
Biden also noted that Sanders had voted against the Brady Bill, which instituted background checks on handguns, five times. “I think he’s regretted that. I think he’s changed his mind,” Biden said. “So I take him at his word.” “This is not the time to get caught up in reliving arguments from before,” he told several hundred people gathered in a hotel ballroom in Decorah, Iowa. “The less 2020 resembles 2016 in our party, the better.”
Buttigieg also argued that Sanders’ plans for “Medicare for All” and free college go further than what most in the Democratic Party can support. “He must be deciding things are getting a little tight,” he said. Asked about differences between himself and opponents such as Buttigieg and Sanders, he said, “You guys have seen Pete. He’s a good guy. You’ve seen Bernie. You’ve seen me. I mean, some things are just self-evident — the contrast. You know, I’ve gotten more than 8,600 votes in my life.”
It is a more aggressive version of the political contrast he has sought to paint in Iowa since Labor Day, when he was the first of the leading candidates to begin broadcasting TV ads in the state. He highlighted those messages with subtle arguments against the progressive politics of Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who at the time was the state’s polling leader.
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