Sen. Tom Cotton warned that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will be beholden to the most radical wing of his party if elected.
“Well, Bernie Sanders just acknowledged the reality. I mean, Joe Biden’s campaign really is a Trojan horse for the far Left, the Democratic Party,” Cotton said Monday on Fox News.
Cotton, a Republican and a supporter of President Trump, rattled off a list of political platforms and policies proposed by liberal Democrats that Biden will be forced to implement.
“Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote his criminal justice platform, which is going to let violent felons out of prison, which is going to eliminate the use of bail so violent felons are going to get out … of jail while they are pending their trial for violent crimes,” Cotton said. “But it’s not just that. I mean, look at what Joe Biden himself said on the campaign trail — that Beto O’Rourke is going to run gun control policy, which is going to be gun confiscation. They’re going to give amnesty to millions and millions of illegal immigrants, so they can take your jobs and also get their healthcare funded by you. At the same time, they are going to take away your health insurance on the job.”
The senator from Arkansas was reacting to comments made by Sanders last month advocating for Biden and celebrating that he would be the “most progressive president since FDR.”
Cotton said Sanders’s comments are evidence of a growing leftward lurch within the Democratic Party that could yield disastrous outcomes for the country if embraced by voters.
“They are also going the take radical steps, like turning Washington, D.C., into a state or packing the Supreme Court, to rubber-stamp their left-wing agenda,” Cotton said.
