Biden launches new attacks on Sanders, Buttigieg, outlines risks to nominating them as primary race enters critical stretchPreliminary Iowa caucus results show the former vice president in fourth place.
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Who is Joe Biden?The Democrat served as U.S. Vice President in the Obama administration.Mary Altaffer/AP
SOMERSWORTH, New Hampshire -- Following what appears to be a disappointing finish in Iowa, former Vice President Joe Biden took direct aim at two of his main rivals for the Democratic nomination during a speech in Somersworth, New Hampshire on Wednesday afternoon, arguing that one's embrace of a 'socialist' label and the other's lack of experience are too great a risk to take in the fight to unseat President Donald Trump.
The former vice president went after Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for embracing the “Democratic socialist” label and told the crowd assembled at a Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) hall that down-ballot candidates in both "easy" and "competitive" districts will not want Sanders to campaign with them.
"If Senator Sanders is the nominee for the party, every Democrat in America up and down the ballot in blue states, red states, purple states in easy districts and competitive ones, every Democrat will have to carry the label senator Sanders has chosen for himself,” Biden said of Sanders’ self-proclaimed "Democratic Socialist" label.
“So when Sanders attacks me for having baggage, I have to tell you, the 60 plus candidates that I campaigned for in the toughest districts in the country just two years ago, don't see me as baggage. They wanted me in their districts,” Biden said. “I doubt whether many people asked Bernie Sanders to come in and campaign.”
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