Bernie Sanders tried to thwart criticisms that Kamala Harris, who is somehow the Democrat nominee for president, both went too far left in the past, and is now flip-flipping on her prior stances.
The website GovTrack, which tracks U.S. Congress, found that Harris was “the most left-leaning senator in 2019” - in a Senate that includes Socialist Sanders. After Harris became the nominee that statistic from GovTracker went viral on social media - leading to GovTracker deleting their tanking, and claiming that it was because her “entire tenure in the senate showed a different story.” Never before has someone’s “entire tenure” been taken into account on a GovTracker rating for a specific year - nor did they think of assessing Harris’ “entire tenure” until right after she joined the presidential race.
Sanders was pressed by NBC’s Kristen Welker "She has previously supported Medicare-For-All, now she does not. She’s previously supported a ban on fracking, now she does not. These, senator, are ideas that you have campaigned on. Do you think she is abandoning her progressive ideals?"
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