Self-described Democratic Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders fended off criticisms that Vice President Kamala Harris has veered too far to the left in the past, calling her changing policy positions “pragmatic.”
Sanders (I-Vt.) claimed Harris has been recalibrating and “doing what she thinks is right in order to win the election.
“No, I don’t think she’s abandoning her ideals. I think she’s trying to be pragmatic,” Sanders told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
“My own view is slightly different. I think that in America today there are a lot of people, rural people, working class people, who no longer believe that the United States Congress and government represents their interests, too dominated by big-money interest.”
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