Bernie Sanders Has No Time For Chris Cuomo Asking About The 2020 Election
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) railed against Chris Cuomo on CNN Thursday night, telling the CNN journalist he was wrong to ask about the 2020 election.
“We don’t need to have never-ending elections,” the Vermont senator said during a discussion on his new book for progressive teens, The Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revoulution. “It never ends!”
He said Cuomo’s question showed how the media chose to discuss never-ending campaigns instead of focusing on real issues.
“People are sick and tired of it,” Sanders added.
Cuomo called out Sanders for writing a book that reads like a campaign manual, and then dodging the question about his future political plans.
“You can yell at me all you want,” Cuomo said.
Sanders’ new book targets the younger demographic among his supporters. More people under the age of 30 voted for Sanders during the Democratic primary than they did for Hillary Clinton. He also won more under-30 votes than President Donald Trump did in the Republican Party’s primary.
The Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution encourages his younger supporters to remain politically active between elections. Most importantly, he told Cuomo, the book is not about one person.
“It is about the need for millions of people to become involved in the political process,” Sanders said. “Because right now, we increasingly have a political system dominated by a handful of billionaires who spend unlimited sums of money electing folks who want to cut social security, Medicare, Medicaid and education, and give tax breaks to people who don’t need it.”
Watch the whole exchange in the video above.
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On Youth Unemployment
"We got to put young people to work, we got to give them an education, rather than putting them in jail," Sanders said in an interview on MSNBC's "The Ed Show."
On The Middle Class
On Gun Control
![<p>"Folks who do not like guns [are] fine. But we have millions of people who are gun owners in this country -- 99.9 percent of those people obey the law. I want to see real, serious debate and action on guns, but it is not going to take place if we simply have extreme positions on both sides. I think I can bring us to the middle," Sanders said in a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/05/politics/bernie-sanders-gun-control/">CNN interview</a>.</p>](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/YZfJOO.PTbSAvCTbvJBbvQ--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MA--/https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/55a7fcab1200002b00135279.jpg)
"Folks who do not like guns [are] fine. But we have millions of people who are gun owners in this country -- 99.9 percent of those people obey the law. I want to see real, serious debate and action on guns, but it is not going to take place if we simply have extreme positions on both sides. I think I can bring us to the middle," Sanders said in a CNN interview.
On Free Tuition
"It is insane and counter-productive to the best interests of our country, that hundreds of thousands of bright young people cannot afford to go to college, and that millions of others leave school with a mountain of debt that burdens them for decades. That must end," Sanders said during his campaign announcement.
On Wanting Top Marginal Tax Rate Over 50 Percent
"In the last 30 years there has been a massive -- we’re talking about many trillions of dollars being redistributed from the middle class to the top one-tenth of 1 percent. It is time to redistribute money back to the working families of this country from the top one-tenth of 1 percent," Sanders said on PBS's "Charlie Rose."
On Marijuana
“I coughed a lot, I don’t know. I smoked marijuana twice -- didn’t quite work for me,” Sanders told Yahoo.
On Universal Health Care
"So I do believe that we have to move toward a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system. I think it's not going to happen tomorrow, but that certainly should be the goal," Sanders said on ABC’s "This Week."
On Police Reform
"We’ve got to demilitarize the police -- we don’t need tanks, you don’t need heavy military equipment in the communities of the United States. We gotta pay attention to the African-American communities, to poverty so these kids get the education and job training they need," Sanders told Yahoo.
On His American Citizenship
On Health Care And Education
"Please don't tell me that the United States of America, our great country, cannot guarantee health care to all people. Don't tell me that every person in this country should not be able to get all the education that they need regardless of their income," Sanders said in Portland, Maine.
On Campaign Finance Reform
"A major problem of our campaign finance system is that anybody can start a super PAC on behalf of anybody and can say anything. And this is what makes our current campaign finance situation totally absurd," Sanders said to the Burlington Free Press.
On Undocumented Immigrants
"Despite the central role that undocumented workers play in our economy and in our daily lives, these workers are too often reviled by many for political gain and shunted into the shadows," Sanders said at the National Association of Latino Elected Officials conference.
On Bank Bailouts
"If a bank is too big to fail, that bank is too big to exist," Sanders said in Denver, Colorado.
On Raising The Minimum Wage
"Our goal as a nation is that if somebody works 40 hours a week, that person will not be living in poverty," Sanders said in Iowa.
On The War On Drugs
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