President Trump congratulated Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Sunday for his projected win in the Nevada caucuses.
While speaking to reporters outside the White House before departing for India Sunday, Trump said he thinks “it was a great win for Bernie Sanders.”
“We’ll see how it all turns out. They’ve got a lot of winning to do,” Trump said. “I hope they treat him fairly.”
Trump added that he doesn’t care who he runs against but that he hopes the election won’t be a “rigged deal.”
“Frankly, I don’t care who I run against. I just hope they treat him fairly,” Trump said. “I hope it is not going to be a rigged deal because there’s a lot of bad things going on and I hope it’s not going to be one of those. So, we’ll see what happens.”
Although he didn’t clarify the “bad things” he referred to, Trump’s remarks come days after The New York Times first reported Thursday that intelligence officials warned House lawmakers that Russia was interfering in the 2020 presidential election in an effort to help the President’s re-election. The classified briefing reportedly angered Trump. On Friday, the Washington Post reported that Sanders was briefed by U.S. officials that Russia is attempting to help his campaign in the Democratic presidential primary.
Trump previously congratulated Sanders on Saturday night in a tweet that slammed former Vice President Joe Biden and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. Minutes later, Trump alluded to reports of Russia attempting to help Sanders’ campaign in another tweet.
Looks like Crazy Bernie is doing well in the Great State of Nevada. Biden & the rest look weak, & no way Mini Mike can restart his campaign after the worst debate performance in the history of Presidential Debates. Congratulations Bernie, & don’t let them take it away from you!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 22, 2020
“The Kremlin is reportedly backing Bernie Sanders bid to win the White House.” Jon Scott @FoxNews Why didn’t somebody tell me this?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 23, 2020
Watch Trump’s remarks below:
Trump congratulates Sanders' Nevada win pic.twitter.com/Y7rU5j5aKZ
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) February 23, 2020
Of course Trump wants Bernie. Bernie is another George McGovern or Michael Dukakis.
More importantly, Bernie should be running as the Green Party candidate. He’s not a Democrat.
Well that’s a testimonial — of sorts.
What’s the deal with this headline? Why isn’t it “SANDERS WINS NEVADA”
Why make it about Trump?
You mean it’s not?
I spent a lot of yesterday and last evening in a funk about Nevada, and how we are pissing away 2020 and all that will entail. The idea of Sanders as the nominee and the scathing, withering, relentless attacks that we can expect from the right, have me curled up in the fetal position as I shudder at what will come with another four years of Trump.
But this morning I have been doing a little recalculating. Many of us think that Bernie is crazy and brings little to our effort to win the Senate, especially via places like Arizona, but he has a cultish, frenzied group of followers who will vote for him if it takes their last ounce of strength to do so. That brings it to the mainstream, center-left Democrats, and when faced with, as the GOPers called it in 2016 when it was HRC vs Mangolini, a “binary choice,” then 99 percent of us will vote for Sanders. We recognize that GInsburg is not going to live forever, that the Mango has all but flipped the 9th circuit court that he once bitched about treating him ‘very unfairly,’ and that he literally is a threat to our system of government and our way of life. I also was thinking that we have our share of crazy, rural, old white people too, and they like Bernie just as they like Trump–see the 2016 Michigan Democratic Primary. In fact, to them, Bernie and Trump are similar creatures–disruptors–and they like it because the message of grievance that Bernie and Trumpy share is something they believe is relevant to them. That THEY don’t benefit from all these systems that are in place. That their money is going to THOSE people. Code for black and brown mostly.
My point is, maybe our old rural white people are the equivalent of the Dixiecrats of old, and if they join with the Latinos, who seem to support Bernie, and the A-A population, which seems to be warming to Bernie, then that is a winning coalition.
Just saying. And then there is this out this morning…
Trump Trails All Democrats In Michigan