Donald Trump defends Bernie Sanders again from Democrat ‘smears’ & says party is against the socialist
DONALD Trump has again defended his opponent Bernie Sanders from “smears” from the Democratic Party as the race to 2020 continues to intensify.
On Twitter this morning, the president slammed , who he again called “Pocahantas,” for what he claims “singlehandedly destroyed the campaign.”
Trump said Warren stripped “voters away from his count” on last week, and Sanders “lost states that he easily would have won if she had dropped out 3 days earlier.”
“The DNC is doing it to Bernie again! Will he ever get angry?” Trump wrote online.
The president said in another tweet: “Now the Democrats are trying to smear Bernie with , Russia, Russia. They are driving him Crazy!”
has defended Sanders before.
In February, Trump : “It is happening again to Crazy Bernie, just like last time, only far more obvious.”
“They are taking the Democrat Nomination away from him, and there’s very little he can do. A Rigged System!”
Trump appears to be referring to the during which the criticized and mocked Sanders during his primary campaign against , that year by WikiLeaks.
And at a rally in January, Trump said he didn’t believe accusations that Sanders told Warren he didn’t think a woman could win the White House this November.
“I don’t believe that Bernie said that. I really don’t,” he told his supporters at the rally. “It’s not that kind of thing he would say.”
With his occasional support for the , Trump is taking a page out of his own playbook — from the 2016 election — and betting that the Democratic divisions that helped him win are even deeper now.
Many moderates see a possibility that Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, won’t pull together enough votes to win the Democratic nomination.
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They also worry his supporters might not vote in large enough numbers for the nominee if Sanders doesn’t get it — and both of those scenarios would benefit Trump.
who have spoken to Trump about the election told The Associated Press he’s been closely monitoring the Democrats’ race and has taken note of Sanders’ strong fundraising and polling.
If Sanders stumbles in the coming weeks, however, Trump is also said to see an opportunity to suppress some of the senator’s strongest supporters, or even win over some of their votes.
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