Good news! Senator Bernie Sanders is never going to be the President of the United States.
Florida Democrats are denouncing Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders for refusing to call Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro a dictator — a politically explosive issue in the nation’s biggest swing state.
Sanders also would not say whether he considered Venezuela’s assembly leader, Juan Guaidó, as the nation’s interim president, which is the position of the United States and a majority of Latin American countries European countries.
Both of Sanders’ positions play into the hands of President Trump and the GOP, say Democrats. The president just held a rally in Miami on Monday to denounce Maduro and socialism, an appeal to the state’s growing block of Venezuelan-American voters. Many Venezuelans have flocked to the state as the country’s economy crashed and repression increased.
Democrats, already alarmed that Trump’s inroads with Venezuelans could help him peel off an otherwise-reliable Democratic voting bloc in a toss-up state, were quick to denounce Sanders’ comments.
“He is not going to be the nominee of the Democratic Party. He has demonstrated again that he does not understand this situation,” Rep. Donna Shalala, a Miami Democrat who represents Venezuelan exiles and, told POLITICO. “I absolutely disagree with his imprecision in not saying Maduro must go.” Shalala has filed legislation aimed at helping Venezuelan immigrants.
WIBC host Tony Katz:
“Juan Guaido is the recognized leader of Venezuela, and to say ‘no’ is to fly in the face of the people of Venezuela. The national assembly there has rules, and one of the rules is if they decide that there’s an election irregularity, the president of the national assembly is in charge. The president of the national assembly is Juan Guaido; so he is the leader.
How does a guy like Bernie Sanders not understand the situation? How does he dare think that he can be the President of the United States? Or is it purposeful? Because how can they admit that the socialism of Nicolas Maduro didn’t work?”
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