Radio host Howard Stern referred to Sen. Bernie Sanders as “Karl Marx Jr.” and warned that he wouldn’t be able to defeat President Trump in November.
Stern on Monday was in the middle of a segment on the coronavirus during his SiriusXM radio show when he segued into the election. He warned Democrats that they need to nominate a “strong moderate,” not “Karl Marx Jr.”
“Karl Marx Jr. ain’t going to win the general election. It’s not going to happen,” he said of Sanders. “What they need is a good, strong moderate to be the candidate, and Karl Marx Jr. backed Casto, and Karl Marx Jr. — all the shit he wants to get through, all the free Medicaid and all the free college? No one is going to pay for it. No one in Congress, Democrats or Republicans, are going to approve it, and neither is the Senate.”
Stern, imitating the Vermont senator’s accent, said, “I don’t think there should be any billionaires.”
“I would have turned to him and said, ‘OK, now there’s an interesting notion,'” he joked before pointing out that Sanders owns three homes and asking how he would feel if two of them were taken away.
Howard Stern calls Bernie Sanders Karl Marx Jr. and says that he can’t beat Trump in the general election. pic.twitter.com/bCdp3689d1
— Barry Rubin (@barubin) March 2, 2020
Stern also touched on the last Democratic primary debate, saying he had “sleepless nights” over former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s poor performance. He said the billionaire, who dropped out of the race and endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday, should have called Sanders “Karl Marx Jr.” on the debate stage to get an edge over the candidate.
“I would have turned to that Elizabeth Warren and said, ‘Listen, Liz, you and Karl Marx Jr. have never run anything. You’ve never generated a job. You’ve never generated income. I have thousands of employees, people whose families have a life because of what I created. You didn’t get anything done, so shut the f— up,'” he said.
Stern’s comments came ahead of Super Tuesday, when voters in 14 states and American Samoa cast their ballots in the Democratic Party’s nominating contest. Biden landed several surprising victories and took the delegate lead from Sanders, the race’s former front-runner, sealing his place as an alternative to the avowed socialist.
