{"id":1233146,"date":"2022-01-23T12:23:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T17:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1233146"},"modified":"2022-01-23T12:23:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T17:23:52","slug":"bernie-sanders-tries-to-blame-congressional-gridlock-on-gop-but-admits-hed-support-a-primary-against-manchin-sinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bernie-sanders-tries-to-blame-congressional-gridlock-on-gop-but-admits-hed-support-a-primary-against-manchin-sinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders Tries To Blame Congressional Gridlock On GOP \u2014 But Admits He\u2019d Support A Primary Against Manchin, Sinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbernie-sanders-tries-to-blame-congressional-gridlock-on-gop-but-admits-hed-support-a-primary-against-manchin-sinema%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1233146&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders tried to point the finger at Republicans who were standing in the way of President Joe Biden\u2019s legislative agenda \u2014 particularly his sweeping spending package known as Build Back Better and his party\u2019s attempts to overhaul election law at the federal level \u2014 before admitting that if the opportunity arose, he would support primaries against Democratic Senators Joe Manchin (WV and Kyrsten Sinema (AZ).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/let-him-vote-no-in-front-of-the-entire-world-bernie-sanders-says-manchin-doesnt-have-the-guts-to-support-build-back-better\/\">Sanders<\/a> joined CNN anchor <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/let-me-back-up-winsome-sears-directly-challenges-dana-bash-claim-that-crt-is-not-in-virginia-curriculum\/\">Dana Bash<\/a> on Sunday\u2019s broadcast of \u201cState of the Union\u201d to discuss the situation on Capitol Hill, and he began by arguing that it was the 50 Republicans in the evenly-divided Senate who had made it their mission to obstruct President Biden\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re all hoping for a better 2022. For President Biden the year hasn\u2019t started so well,\u201d Bash began noting that Biden\u2019s two biggest legislative goals \u2014 Build Back Better and the federal election overhaul \u2014 were stalled in the Senate, in part due to Manchin and Sinema refusing to allow any changes to the filibuster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere we are one year into the Biden presidency. Those two key priorities are stalled in the Senate because Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema won\u2019t get on board. How frustrated are you?\u201d Bash turned the question to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/bernie-sanders-refused-to-sign-on-to-statement-condemning-activists-harassing-sinema-in-bathroom-report\/\">Sanders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not only those two. It\u2019s 50 Republicans who have been adamant, not only in pushing an anti-democratic agenda, but also opposing our efforts to try to lower the cost of prescription drugs, to expand Medicare to include dental, hearing and eyeglasses, to improve the disastrous situation in home health care, in child care, to address the existential threat of climate change,\u201d Sanders said, shifting the blame to Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have 50 Republicans who don\u2019t want to do anything except criticize the president. You have, sadly enough, two Democrats who choose to work with the Republicans rather than the president and who have sabotaged the president\u2019s efforts to address the needs of working families in this country. Is it frustrating? It sure is,\u201d Sanders continued, saying that the best way to move forward was to force a vote and make Republicans go on record with what they were opposing \u2014 and if Manchin and Sinema voted with Republicans, he said, the American people would see that as well.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cYou got 50 Republicans who don\u2019t want to do anything except criticize the president. And then you have, sadly enough, two Democrats who choose to work with the Republicans rather than the president, and who have sabotaged the president\u2019s effort \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TKacjfBtOd\">pic.twitter.com\/TKacjfBtOd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Recount (@therecount) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1485258721269891074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bash noted that the Arizona Democratic Party had recently censured Sinema, asking Sanders whether he believed that had been an appropriate action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely it was. On that particular vote that she and Manchin \u2014 you have 19 states in this country undermining the foundations of American democracy, trying to make it harder for people of color, young people, people with disabilities to vote, coming up with extreme gerrymandering, taking action against independent election officials, and it is so important that we protect American democracy, that we stand up to the big lie of Trump and his allies that he really won the election. They undermined that effort,\u201d Sanders insisted. \u201cI think what the Arizona Democrats did was exactly right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bash took her line of questioning a step further, asking, \u201cWould you be willing to campaign against either Senator Sinema or Senator Manchin in a Democratic primary?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sanders protested a bit at first, noting that neither was up for reelection until 2024, but eventually made his position clear: \u201cIf there were strong candidates in those states who were prepared to stand up for working families, who understand the Democratic Party has got to be the party of working people, taking on big money interests, if those candidates were there in Arizona and West Virginia, yes, I would be happy to support them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders tried to point the finger at Republicans who were standing in the way of President Joe Biden\u2019s legislative agenda \u2014 particularly his sweeping spending package known as Build Back Better and his party\u2019s attempts to overhaul election law at the federal level \u2014 before admitting that if the opportunity arose, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}