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Which Democratic candidate does Trump fear?

Americano

The Spectator

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.0762 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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With Elizabeth Harrington, GOP National Spokesperson.

Presented by Freddy Gray.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics and the Trump presidency.

0:14.6

I would like to remind you all that we have just launched our print edition, and I'd like to encourage you all to subscribe. You can do that

0:22.3

by going to www. spectator.us forward slash subscribe and there you can take advantage of our various

0:31.0

offers. I'm joined today by Liz Harrington, who is a GOP national spokesperson and has been working on the Trump campaign. And Liz, I just thought,

0:41.7

I'd like to talk to you about the Democratic primary because it's sort of heating up at the moment.

0:46.2

And the latest polls suggest that Bernie is kind of moving into favoritism, certainly in the early

0:52.8

states. And does the thought of facing Bernie Sanders in election, does it strike fear in your heart?

1:00.2

No, none of the candidates strike a whole lot of fear.

1:04.8

And it's telling that he's the frontrunner, the guy who honeymoon in the Soviet Union,

1:15.1

is now the standard bearer for this party for the Democrats. And you see it in the policies that they're all endorsing. So just out today,

1:20.7

the New York Times has a story about Pennsylvania and some of the other Rust Belt states and how they would be impacted by

1:29.9

what every single Democrat frontrunner, Sanders, Biden, Warren has vowed to do, which is

1:37.4

ban fracking. And it would eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs, cause energy prices to

1:43.7

skyrocket.

1:44.3

But this is just one example of how these far-left policies have made their way into the

1:51.0

mainstream of what the Democrat Party, that's the choice voters have in a week, is basically

1:57.6

a choice of banning fracking or leaving the Democrat Party.

2:02.9

And it, well, it is very odd, isn't it?

2:04.2

Do you sometimes kind of kick yourself and think how extraordinary it is,

2:09.0

that a stronger Democratic candidate hasn't emerged?

2:12.6

It is extraordinary.

2:14.5

It's an extraordinarily weak field to have, what, two dozen candidates at the

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