A Sunday interview on "Meet the Press" by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., was seized on by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as a big victory.
"Bernie Sanders really threw Comrade Kamala Harris under the proverbial 'BUS,'" Trump wrote Monday on Truth Social. "Essentially said, very clearly, that she is a total phony. Once a Marxist, always a Marxist!"
Trump's post did not specify the exact comments that should bring votes to him, but Sanders admitted Harris' claim "my values haven't changed" — while now flip-flopping on policies on the border, the wall, fracking, policing, expanding the child tax credit, and adopting Trump's no tax on tips — is because she is saying things "in order to win the election," according to Sanders.
"I don't think she's abandoning her ideals," Sanders said. "I do consider her progressive."
Since Harris was crowned the presumptive Democrat nominee after President Joe Biden was forced out of the race, Trump has warned that a politician might say things to get votes in elections, but they don't change.
"Their first thoughts" are always where they return when in power, Trump has repeatedly warned at campaign rallies since the July switch from Biden to Harris. Trump's remarks foreshadowed Harris' policy changes that ultimately came as she had to make her case to voters as the official nominee.
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