'I think there is a strong chance that...[Biden] will win,' Sanders said during an appearance Friday on PBS' 'Firing Line.' 'Am I here to tell you, 'Absolutely, this is a slam dunk, no chance that he will lose?' That's not what I'm saying.'
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders believes Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden can defeat President Donald Trump in the November election, but refused to say it would be a"slam dunk."Firing Line
Host Margaret Hoover spoke with the senator, who formally ended his campaign for president in April, on a wide range of topics, including the tapes released this week by journalist Bob Woodward in which Trump revealed heSanders called Trump a"pathological liar" and asserted that Biden's campaign for the presidency is dependent upon"whether or not we remain a democratic society.
It's not a big secret that Biden is more conservative than Sanders, particularly when it comes to climate change and health care, Sanders said. But the senator, who endorsed Biden for president just days after ending his own campaign, acknowledged that members of their teams had come together to hammer out a"series of programs on the major issues facing this country.
Hoover presented a possible scenario to Sanders in which Trump lost the election but refused to leave office,during a July interview with Fox News host Chris Wallace. If that were to actually happen, then"we are probably in the worst constitutional crisis in the history of this country," Sanders told Hoover.
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