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As the presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders gains momentum, the attacks against him are intensifying.

Billionaire former mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, has announced that he's going to unleash a spate of attack ads against Bernie Sanders,

while Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden are harping on about comments that Sanders made on 60 minutes where he praised Cuba's literacy efforts.

We're very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba, but you know, it's unfair to simply say everything is bad.

You know, when Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program.

Is that a bad thing, even though Fidel Castro did a lot of dissidents and prison, and that's right, and we condemn that.

The red baiting attacks on Bernie Sanders, which by the way also existed when he ran against Hillary Clinton in 2016,

are most definitely going to increase this week ahead of the South Carolina primary on Saturday and next week's Super Tuesday contest.

It's worth pointing out that what Sanders said about Cuba under Fidel Castro is very similar to what Joe Biden's former boss, Barack Obama said, while Biden was his VP.

And I said this to President Castro in Cuba. I said, look, you've made great progress in educating young people.

Every child in Cuba gets a basic education. That's a huge improvement from where it was. Medical care.

Now, the life expectancy of Cubans is equivalent to the United States, despite it being a very poor country because they have access to healthcare.

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