Senator Bernie Sanders Comments On Harris

Bernie Sanders just took a rhetorical sledgehammer to Kamala Harris — and he did it on CNN, no less. For a man who’s spent decades trying to keep the Democratic Party’s socialist wing in fighting shape, this was more than a casual critique. This was the political equivalent of tossing your own teammate under the campaign bus and then backing it over them… twice.

Asked by Dana Bash to explain why he thought Harris lost the 2024 election, Bernie didn’t hesitate. He blamed billionaires. Not Republicans. Not “misinformation.” Not some vague external force Democrats love to invent when things go south. No — according to Bernie, Harris surrounded herself with wealthy donors who told her to keep quiet about the working class.

“Well, no, I think, I mean, I don’t think that that’s — I like her, she’s a friend of mine, but her core consultants, you know, were heavily influenced by very wealthy people,” Sanders said.

“How do you run for president and not develop a strong agenda which speaks to the economic crises facing working families? You know, more income and wealth inequality today than we’ve ever had. You have 60% of our people living paycheck to paycheck. You’ve got a health care system which is broken and dysfunctional, and despite spending so much, we’re the only major country not to guarantee health care to all people. How do you not talk about these issues?,” he continued.

And here’s where the hypocrisy meter starts twitching. This is the same Bernie who, just two months before the election, defended Harris for downplaying her hard-left agenda, calling it “pragmatic” strategy. Translation: hide the Marxist playbook, win first, then unleash it later. But now? Apparently, that caution cost her the election.

Which raises a fascinating question: was Bernie lying then to protect her, or is he rewriting history now to distance himself from a losing campaign? Either way, it’s a bad look.

His core complaint? That Harris didn’t have a “strong agenda” for the economic crisis facing American families. According to Bernie, she offered only vague nods to affordability while ducking the big socialist promises like guaranteed health care for all. Never mind that Americans just spent the last few years rejecting exactly that kind of overreach every time it shows up on the ballot.