Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attacked Joe Biden for claiming that Sen. Bernie Sanders’s criticisms of his record were untrue.
Biden, 77, and Sanders, 78, have been jostling for the top spot in the Democratic presidential primary by ripping each other’s records. Sanders has been drilling Biden for his support of the Iraq War and cuts to Social Security. The Vermont senator released an attack advertisement against Biden that featured a clip of the former vice president discussing spending cuts to Social Security and Medicare.
Let’s be honest, Joe. One of us fought for decades to cut Social Security, and one of us didn’t. But don’t take it from me. Take it from you. pic.twitter.com/qh7qb1Hmcl
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) January 22, 2020
Biden condemned the advertisement, calling it a “flat lie.” In a series of Wednesday tweets, Ocasio-Cortez, 30, questioned how Biden can call his own words a lie.
She tweeted, “I don’t understand why some folks run as if the internet doesn’t exist. Joe Biden helped sell the invasion of Iraq and spent years working to cut social security, Medicare, and Medicaid. He’s open to a Republican running mate. Spin it however you want, but those are the facts.”
And before folks jump in saying I’m wrong or that it’s more complicated than that, let me give you the receipts.
On Iraq:https://t.co/h0cIbbswnI
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 22, 2020
The New York Democrat also tweeted separate links that show Biden supporting the Iraq War, cutting Social Security, and openly considering a Republican running mate, writing, “And before folks jump in saying I’m wrong or that it’s more complicated than that, let me give you the receipts.”
And on considering a Republican running mate: https://t.co/t4MTURAG0t
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 22, 2020
Ocasio-Cortez endorsed Sanders’s 2020 presidential bid after getting her start in politics by volunteering for his 2016 presidential primary. She has singled out Biden throughout the campaign and claimed that she and Biden wouldn’t be in the same political party if the two lived in “any other country.”
Biden has ripped Sanders for targeting him instead of President Trump. He also released an attack advertisement of his own, saying, “As Democrats, we can’t launch dishonest attacks against fellow Democrats.”
I’ve been fighting to protect — and expand — Social Security for my whole career. Any suggestion otherwise is just flat-out wrong. pic.twitter.com/KWIIJgFqGk
— Joe Biden (Text Join to 30330) (@JoeBiden) January 22, 2020
The two presidential candidates have been trading places at the tops of polls, with Biden bumping Sanders from the top spot in an Iowa poll and Sander nudging Biden from first place in a nationwide CNN poll.
