The Bernie Sanders Interview

Deconstructed

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🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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With three months to go until the Iowa caucuses, Bernie Sanders finds himself fighting to make headway against the other frontrunners in the Democratic primary. While he appears to have bounced back from his recent heart attack—putting in a convincing performance in the last debate and picking up a coveted endorsement from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—the democratic socialist from Vermont has struggled to recapture the old 2016 magic in a more crowded 2020 field. Mehdi Hasan talks to Bernie about his campaign strategy, what separates him from his chief progressive rival Elizabeth Warren, and whether he’d be comfortable with an all-white—or all-male—ticket in 2020. Then, Intercept DC Bureau Chief Ryan Grim stops by to discuss the prospects for the Sanders campaign.

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0:00.0	Trump will accept the election results and when I defeat him I will become the president of the United States.
0:07.6	Okay?
0:14.5	Welcome to Deconstructed, I'm Mehdi Hassan.
0:16.9	On the show today, might we see a Bernie Sanders Elizabeth Warren joint ticket come November 2020?
0:23.4	If I am fortunate enough to become president I would look absolutely to Elizabeth Warren as somebody
0:29.5	who would play a very, very important role in everything that we're doing.
0:32.2	That's my guest, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is of course running for the Democratic
0:36.6	presidential nomination for a second time. But is Bernie both fit enough and popular enough
0:42.1	to win the nomination this time round? And perhaps more importantly, does he have what it takes
0:46.8	to defeat Donald Trump next November?
0:51.8	Team Biden and Team Warren are taking shape.
0:54.2	I think I'm going to watch Elizabeth Warren and Mayor Pete Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren.
0:58.3	Warren and Mayor Pete Buttigieg Biden and Warren both rising.
1:01.1	Let's focus on Buttigieg and Biden.
1:03.5	You got a clear top five candidates here with Biden, Warren, tell me who I'm missing.
1:09.2	Judging from the news coverage on network news, cable news, on the front pages of the main newspapers,
1:14.4	you might think there were only three people in the running for the Democratic presidential nomination
1:18.8	right now, former vice president Joe Biden, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
1:24.8	There is of course, though, another pretty major candidate who consistently comes second or
1:30.0	third in the polls nationally and has even led in some of the early voting states.
1:34.6	He's also the same guy who came second in the Democratic presidential primaries in 2016,
1:39.2	winning 13 million votes in 22 states and becoming a household name in the process.
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