{"id":537783,"date":"2021-05-23T13:50:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T17:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=537783"},"modified":"2021-05-23T13:50:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T17:50:26","slug":"those-are-his-words-dana-bash-presses-cedric-richmond-after-biden-says-no-to-progressives-socialist-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/those-are-his-words-dana-bash-presses-cedric-richmond-after-biden-says-no-to-progressives-socialist-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Those Are His Words\u2019: Dana Bash Presses Cedric Richmond After Biden Says \u2018No\u2019 To Progressives\u2019 \u2018Socialist Agenda\u2019"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fthose-are-his-words-dana-bash-presses-cedric-richmond-after-biden-says-no-to-progressives-socialist-agenda%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=537783&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-23-at-12.03.03-PM-e1621790147646.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>CNN\u2019s Dana Bash pressed White House adviser Cedric Richmond on President Joe Biden\u2019s claim that he would not back a \u201csocialist agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richmond made a Sunday morning appearance on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d and pushed back against the idea the Biden might be splitting from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party.<strong> <a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/11\/play-golf-caitlyn-jenner-reveals-she-didnt-vote-in-2020\/\">(RELATED: \u2018I Just Wound Up Going To Play Golf\u2019: Caitlyn Jenner Reveals She Didn\u2019t Vote In 2020)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/16\/dana-bash-cdc-rochelle-walensky-mask-mandates-vaccine-passports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bash<\/a> began by reading a line from an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/20\/opinion\/joe-biden-david-brooks-interview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interview<\/a> that Biden gave to New York Times columnist David Brooks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said, quote, \u2018the Progressives don\u2019t like me because I\u2019m not prepared to take on what I would say and they would say is a socialist agenda.\u2019 The president is saying the Progressive agenda is socialist. Really?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/28\/dana-bash-antony-blinken-jamal-khashoggi-murder-mohammed-bin-salman-killer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bash<\/a> asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what he\u2019s saying,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/10\/16\/joe-biden-court-packing-question-campaign-co-chairman-cedric-richmond\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richmond<\/a> objected, arguing that a number of the policies the Biden administration was supporting and had already put into place were progressive and that the labels were far less important than the actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the president is always talking about what he has done, what he can get done. And he\u2019s not a president that walks around, talking about labels,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/11\/22\/cedric-richmond-donald-trump-house-of-representatives-republican-turnout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richmond<\/a> continued. \u201cHe\u2019s a president that just meets the challenges he\u2019s faced with and keeps the promises he has made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s not somebody who generally talks about labels, which is why this really stood out. I will say again, this is his quote. \u2018I\u2019m not prepared to take on what I would say and they would say is a socialist agenda.\u2019 Those are his words,\u201d Bash repeated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, look, I don\u2019t think that the definition of the agenda matters,\u201d Richmond objected again, saying that the labels didn\u2019t matter as long as the policies Biden supported matched up with the policies progressives in the party were asking to see implemented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReducing child poverty, investing in families, building our infrastructure so we can compete for tomorrow and making a significant statement and assistance for real policing reform in this country, those are things that are important to him,\u201d Richmond added. \u201cThose are things that are important to progressives, moderates and others as well, which is in the business of getting the work done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN\u2019s Dana Bash pressed White House adviser Cedric Richmond on President Joe Biden\u2019s claim that he would not back a \u201csocialist agenda.\u201dRichmond made a Sunday morning appearance on CNN\u2019s \u201cState &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312752,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-23-at-12.03.03-PM-e1621790147646.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Those Are His Words\u2019: Dana Bash Presses Cedric Richmond After Biden Says \u2018No\u2019 To Progressives\u2019 \u2018Socialist Agenda\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-23-at-12.03.03-PM-e1621790147646.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"\u2018Those Are His Words\u2019: Dana Bash Presses Cedric Richmond After Biden Says \u2018No\u2019 To Progressives\u2019 \u2018Socialist Agenda\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537783","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=537783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}