MSNBC anchor Brian Williams mocked the more liberal Democratic presidential candidates on Tuesday during the network’s coverage after the debate.
2020 presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, both of whom identify as two of the more liberal candidates, had to defend their positions on healthcare. Both of them support a single-payer “Medicare for all” system.
“You got one side of the party offering free salad bar and breadsticks, everything right up to that, and the other side of the party trying to be the moderates, saying: ‘We can’t promise this stuff,’” Williams said, offering his take on the debate to Washington Post reporter Robert Costa.
“But a tricky night, Brian, for many of the moderates on stage like Congressman Ryan, who is best known in politics for running against Speaker Pelosi to take control of the gavel,” Costa responded. “Whether it was former Gov. Hickenlooper of Colorado or Sen. Klobuchar of Minnesota or Congressman Ryan, they found themselves actually not serving from question to question as the foil against the liberal favorites on stage, Sen. Sanders and Sen. Warren. Instead, it was a wealthy former congressman from Maryland in John Delaney who seemed to play that role time and again.”
In one of the more heated moments of the debate, Delaney, a candidate who is against a single-payer healthcare system, argued that Sanders did “his math wrong.”
Williams was not the only media member to address Warren and Sanders’ liberal agenda. CNN’s John King said that the two 2020 hopefuls are “way to the left of” former president Obama and “way way way way way way way left” of former President Bill Clinton.
