Joe Biden appeared to undermine the argument for his own electability by declining to back the criticism coming from some Democrats about Bernie Sanders’s chances at beating President Trump.
“I refuse to suggest any Democrat can lose. I think we could run Mickey Mouse against this president and have a shot,” the former vice president said Tuesday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
The Vermont senator had a much stronger showing than his 2020 presidential rival in the Iowa caucuses last week and is the candidate to beat in the New Hampshire primaries on Tuesday.
Sanders’s rise has fueled panic within the Democratic Party establishment. After the Iowa caucuses, James Carville, a Democratic political strategist and former adviser to President Bill Clinton, said the party is moving too far to the left.
“It’s like we’re losing our damn minds,” he told Vox. In another interview, he argued that Sanders winning the primary would be the “end of days” for the Democratic Party.
Biden’s latest comment appears to be a slight step back from his criticism of Sanders earlier this week when he said the self-described democratic socialist would be more vulnerable to attacks from Trump.
“What do you think Trump is going to do with that?” Biden said Monday.
