Bernie Clashes With Tapper Over Old Comments: ‘You Go Back to My 3rd Grade Essay?!’
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) took issue on Sunday with CNN anchor Jake Tapper bringing up comments he made over 45 years ago, sarcastically asking if Tapper had also dug up his “third-grade essay” as well.
Following Sanders’ strong showing in the Iowa caucus and polls showing him primed for a first-place finish in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary, other candidates have been taking aim at the independent Vermont senator over his democratic socialist positions, claiming Sanders would hurt the Democratic Party if he wins the nomination.
On Sunday’s broadcast of CNN’s State of the Union, Tapper brought up the complaints from moderate Democrats that Sanders’ message is not a winning one, prompting the progressive lawmaker to insist that his “agenda is precisely the agenda that the overwhelming number of people want.”