CNN host presses Bernie Sanders on why Kamala Harris is campaigning with Liz Cheney and not him

CNN big Jake Tapper pressed Sen. Bernie Sanders connected Sunday connected wherefore Vice President Kamala Harris is out campaigning with Liz Cheney, a Republican, alternatively than the progressive Vermont senator.

"What does it accidental the Kamala Harris is starting this week with lone 16 days left, campaigning with Liz Cheney, a precise blimpish erstwhile congresswoman, girl of Dick Cheney, obviously, but she has not yet held a nationalist run lawsuit with you, arguably the person of the progressive question successful the United States?" Tapper asked. 

Cheney, a large professional of the erstwhile president, endorsed Harris for president and is acceptable to appear connected the run trail with her successful cardinal plaything states, including Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.

"I deliberation it says is that what the vice president understands is that determination are millions of radical truly disgusted with Trump’s changeless lying with his effort to forestall the archetypal peaceful modulation of power, his undermining of American ideology and that’s what she’s talking about," Sanders responded.

CNN's Jake Tapper asked Bernie Sanders connected Sunday wherefore VP Kamala Harris was campaigning with Liz Cheney and not him. (Screenshot/CNN)

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Tapper besides pressed Sanders connected Harris' flip-flops connected respective far-left positions the Vermont legislator supports. 

"In summation to the Green New Deal and Medicare for each single-payer wellness attraction and ending fracking. In summation to those being positions that you hold, Vice President Harris utilized to beryllium with you connected each 3 of them, and present is against you connected each 3 of them. Is she making a mistake having reversed those positions?"

Sanders said the Democratic Party was coming unneurotic to decision Trump. 

"In presumption of Medicare for all, I personally judge that the existent strategy is broken, dysfunctional. Its large goals is to marque billions successful profits for the cause companies and the security companies. And we extremity up spending doubly arsenic overmuch per capita connected wellness attraction arsenic the radical of immoderate different country," helium said. "I deliberation we person to grow Medicare."

Vice President Kamala Harris leaves aft a Rose Garden lawsuit astatine the White House to people National Small Business Week connected May 1, 2023, successful Washington, D.C.  (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Harris and Cheney volition squad up for a bid of "moderated conversations" targeting suburban voters successful Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, the Harris run announced. The run said the events volition beryllium moderated by longtime Republican strategist Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark, and blimpish vigor big and writer Charlie Sykes.

Harris and Cheney volition talk to voters successful Chester County, Philadelphia, and Oakland County, Detroit, arsenic good arsenic Waukesha County, Milwaukee. The second volition instrumentality spot the time earlier aboriginal in-person voting begins successful the Badger State.

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Fox News' Michael Dorgan and Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.