Sen. Sanders apologizes for an op-ed written by a campaign supporter that argued Biden “has a big corruption problem.”
, Sanders and his campaign have been at the center of the field’s biggest clashes. These clashes were started by or escalated with the words or actions of Sanders campaign staff and surrogates, prompting responses by the candidate.
“As Democrats I thought we all knew this election was too important to attack other Democrats,” Biden wrote in a Monday fundraising email to supporters after the two went back and forth over the weekend. “But Bernie Sanders and his campaign don’t care about that,” Biden’s email to supporters continued, “They’ve decided to unleash a barrage of negative attacks lying about and distorting my record.”from the Sanders campaign, after it shared a series of video clips highlighting Biden’s openness to cuts or freezes to Social Security. One clip retweeted by an adviser was misleading and out of context, and suggested Biden praised cuts to Social Security proposed by former House Speaker Paul Ryan.
The growing disputes come with the Iowa caucuses less than two weeks away. In the days before last week’s debate, top surrogate and campaign co-chair Nina Turner wrote an op-ed that criticized Biden's past policies affecting black America. Senior adviser Jeff Weaver also released a strong statement, challenging Biden's Iraq War vote.Sanders told CBS News he does not approve of the aggressive online attacks by some of his supporters.
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