Sanders also considered the unsuccessful campaign of then-Senator Kamala Harris and alleged her advisers disregarded his recommendations on message.
Sanders stated, citing Harris’s approach of presenting everything as good, “That was what her bloody consultants told her to say.” “I begged them [to travel with a different message]!”
He told Schulz that Harris ought to have pushed back on her campaign team and conceded, “You’re right.” There is no dispute.
Sanders then asserted the Democratic elite was behind the concerted narrative that spread his grassroots followers in 2016 as “racists,” “misogynists.”
The conversation ended with a surprise. Bernie Sanders officially ruled out a 2028 presidential run, saying, “I think I’ve run my last race.”
What came next was another shocker: he refused to endorse AOC.
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“It was the Democratic establishment,” Sanders declared. With the support of the corporate media and all that, they build this kind of myth.