Sanders: Reporting On What Carson Said In The Past Isn’t Fair Game

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015, at the University of South Carolina Aiken, S.C. (Chris Thelen/The Augusta Chronicle via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said he didn’t think reporting on what Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson stated years ago was fair game.

NBC “Meet The Press” host Chuck Todd asked Sanders what he thought about “the Ben Carson stuff.”

“Because you have seen some people leak out stuff you wrote 30 and 40 years ago,” Todd continued. “Is this fair game?”

“No,” Sanders replied. “And look, I listened to the interviews with Dr. Carson. And it’s interesting. But you know what, Chuck? The American people want to know why the middle class of this country is disappearing.”

“I think it might be a better idea, I know it’s a crazy idea, but maybe we focus on the issues impacting the American people and what candidates are saying rather than just spending so much time exploring their lives of 30 or 40 years ago,” Sanders continued. “And I think the reason that so many people are turned off to the political process has a lot to do with the fact that we’re not talking about the real issues impacting real people.”

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