Bernie Sanders set his crosshairs on President Trump in response to the first question asked of him on night two of the 2020 Democratic debate in Miami.
When asked how he planned to defeat Trump in the general election running on socialist policies that could prove divisive to voters, the Vermont senator panned what he perceived to be the failures of the Trump administration and turned on the president in the most personal terms.
Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist who has campaigned for universal healthcare, free college, and the elimination of student debt, accused Trump of being a “phony … a pathological liar, and a racist,” adding that he failed to keep his promise to work for the working families of America.
He claimed that Trump was a “fraud” who attempted to remove access to healthcare for 32 million people and that his tax cuts only benefited the ultra wealthy.
