A Joe Biden, Sanders Split Ticket? Sanders: 'Probably Not.' | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

Senator Bernie Sanders reacts to the idea that if he and Joe Biden are the last two candidates then they might form a combined ticket, suggesting that "we need a little bit more diversity than that." Aired on 3/4/2020.

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A Joe Biden, Sanders Split Ticket? Sanders: 'Probably Not.' | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

[cropcircle]

That was a very polite way of saying "Are you F'ng kidding me?"

[loneranterism]

Such honesty....one old white guy is enough 😄

[kaybergstrom]

Why can I only get 30 second bites from Rachael Maddow? I used to find her along with the rest of MSNBC line up but not for the last couple of months.

[Somebodyelse]

"TWO old white guys one the ticket?"
Lmao

[jiminibops]

I'm definitely a progressive and 100% would vote for a B/B ticket! 🤗

[DinamoDeet]

Americans areToo STUPID to vote this Great man..They prefer Crooks

[patrickalexander]

If it's not Bernie Sanders, you guys really dont get. No matter what anybody says even Bernie himself. We will not vote for Biden or establishment members, Super Pac, or, Obama coalition. So basically I'm prepared to give Trump control of the house and Senate just to show the establishment you better stop playing. Endorsing someone showing signs of dementia. Why dont you do a story on that

[anneinsf]

Rachel, it was patently ridiculous to chop up your Sanders' interview into tiny pieces. And all those tiny video segments didn't come close to covering the entire interview!

Why did MSNBC make this wretched decision: to rack up a lot of clicks and the related ad revenue? To minimize the overall impact of Bernie Sanders' message? And why did you allow MSNBC to slice up a small part of the interview into tiny pieces? Have you NO power to determine how your interviews are presented online?

PLEASE ... post the ENTIRE interview on YouTube ... ASAP!!!

Really, Rachel, the question was a total waste of valuable air time though Bernie's response was perfect. It would have been a far better use of air time if you had asked him what qualities would he look for in potential VP candidates.

So you said you want Biden on your show. If you succed, please ask him questions NO ONE in the corporate media has asked him. Ask him policy questions because he has largely run his campaign on platitudes and "We must get rid of Trump" sloganeering. We DESERVE the answers to what he plans to do for the bottom 90%, many of whom live lives of desperation and despair and who were all but abandoned by the Democratic Party during the Clinton administration.

Ask him why he resorting to lying about his civil rights record gain the support of Black voters.

Ask him why he lies about the cost of Bernie's Med4All.

Ask him how many deaths will continue to be acceptable under Obamacace, even with HIS Medicare option, because over 87 million people now are under- and uninsured and won't seek out medical care until it's too late to save their lives.

Ask him why the taxpayers should continue to subsidize the healthy insurance companies with direct subsidies paid by the government to health insurance com on behalf of Americans who otherwise couldn't pay for ANY Obamacare health insurance policy.

Ask him about what is the acceptable level of under- and uninsured people in this country, especially when the Corona virus becomes the "new normal" grips the country and even being TESTED for the virus costs over $3, 000. Ask him what he plans to do for and about the under- and uninsured who will not seek testing, much less expensive medical care, if their symptoms are in the mild to moderate range and who will even go to work because a loss of two weeks' pay would result in economic catastrophe for them.

Ask him why he supported the Iraq war and later lied about when he stopped supporting the war. Ask him if his excuse for backing the AUMF -- he trusted Bush and Cheney would use the AUMF only to force Hussein to let nuclear inspectors into the country -- was an indication of extremely poor judgment.

Ask him if he and every candidatie over the age of 75 should be required to be seriously tested for his/her level of cognitive functioning and executive decision-making functioning AND release the detailed test results to the public. Ask him, because of his age, if he would be willing to voluntarily undergo these tests and release the results to reassure the public he is both mentally and physically fit to assume the duties of president.

Ask him why he keeps saying anything is possible in America even as he says it is impossible to institute a single payer health care system which is wildly popular with Democratic and Independents and even some Republican voters. Ask him if the REAL reason it will be hard to get a single payer bill passed in Congress is that the majority of the members of Congress are dependent on the often substantial legal bribes [aka "campaign donations"] given to them by the health care industry and Big Pgarma to fund their re-election campaigns.

Ask him to name FIVE things he has done in the past 20 years which resulted in a better life for the bottom 50% of population who work in low wage jobs earning an average of $18/hr. Ask him to be specific about his actions. And, if he cites stuff he says he did as VP, ask him to ask Obama, members of Congress and his former staff members to verify his claims (because he lied in a debate about his working super hard to get Warren's pet project, the CFPB, passed in Congress when members of his own VP staff and members of Congess subsequently said he didn't lift a finger to help get that bill passed). And be prepared for a slew of lies and exagerationss.

Ask him if he would reinstate the individual and corporate marginal tax rates which existed before 1980 (when achieving the American Dream was still a possibility) and propose only nominal federal taxes for individuals and families who earn less than a living wage.

Ask him what SPECIFIC policies and plans does he have to at least mitigate the vast income inequality in this country.

Ask him if he agrees with MLK's belief that "Those who make nonviolent impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

Ask him what would he accomplished by his (as he himself described it) "moderate" approach to climate change. Ask him to be specific about what policies and plans he would advance so the planet will still be habitable in 50 years.

Ask him if yet another neoliberal centrist Democrat won't lose in 2020 when every such Democrat has lost their elections since 2000: Gore in 2000, Kerry in 2004, and Hillary Clinton in 2016. Ask him if he will be Clinton 2.0, especially since he seems to be unwilling to fight for a single one of Bernie Sander's wildly popular policies. Ask him if he will be far more responsive to his corporate donors than to the needs and hopes of the American public.

And that's just for starters. But please ... don't let him just spout platitudes. And please, no softball or horse race questions.

Why ask these questions? Because Trump will totally trash Biden on these issues, especially about Biden's obvious mental decline, no matter whether or not you and the rest of of the corporate media finally bring up these issues. And stop worrying about Trump using Biden's responses against him: Team Trump is already loaded for bear for their effort to destroy Biden on these issues as well as on the soft corruption of multiple members of Biden's family, especially Hunter, feeding at the public and private trough since Biden was first elected to Congress just by trading on the family last name.

My guess, Biden will lose the election and highly paid members of the corporate media won't care because, unlike the rest of us bottom 90% of the population, they personally won't be affected in the slightest bit UNLESS MSNBC fires them and they lose their health insurance AND they haven't stockpiled half of the millions of $$ they are paid every year.

Oh, and if Biden is the Democratic nominee the planet is doomed because neither Trump nor Biden has ANY plan for dealing with the climate crisis, and Biden has NO plan for getting bills passed in Congress and the corporate media doesn't care that Biden doesn't have a plan for dealing with the climate crisis.

[ralphealcoty]

I loved his response lol! Two white guys on the ticket is too much.

[AmpedUpTech]

Bernie as President, Warren as VP, Tulsi as Secretary Of Defense and Katie Porter as Attorney General or Treasury Secretary. 🙏🙂

I hope Bernie goes with such kind of Administration. 🙂

[willbejamming]

Hmm...well, Biden does have considerable experience as vice-president.

[marymcquaid]

Those two might not make a good ticket, but I don't think it's because they are both old white guys.

[mattrussillo]

Why would he want that?
What a dumb question. Sanders is presidential material and Biden is NOT!

[lindapatrick]

Rachel, you have an obvious bias against Bernie and it shows in your negative framed questioning. I am deeply disappointed. I have watched and been a fan for a very long time. I never put you in the mass media bias against Bernie category but now I do. You owe him an apology. At this dangerous time in our world, I counted on you for unbiased, accurate reporting, clearly I was wrong. I’m am quite sad as a result.

[dislikes]

.. Put Sleepy Joe to Bed! 😊👍😊👍😊 Let's Go, Bernie! 😊👍😊👍😊
I got my Cyanide pill ready, .. just in case you win !!! 😊👍😊👍😊

[gordonkachuk]

Rachel, I've been following your show on a daily basis for more than 5 years and always believed you to be a real progressive. Not anymore. The way you treated Bernie Sanders during your most recent interview with him I found absolutely disgusting. If you don't like his policies just don't vote for him. You have shown clearly that you are just another corporate democrat.

[marp]

Look he will pick a woman for vp and am sure it will be a woman of color you’ll see

[victorvegan]

Americans, c'mon. This is our chance to put a real man of the people in the office. Bernie will set the table for a future of hope and well being for our people. Joe, not so much.

[piecesofme]

Nah put the diversity in the cabinet, we need to form together like voltron come November. #WeNeedAUnityTicket!

[mrdman]

But if they did team up they couldn't lose.