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Trump Campaign Struggles To Define Biden And Harris, Desperately Grasps For 'Socialist'

The Trump world’s reaction to the new Joe Biden-Kamala Harris ticket on Tuesday was that they are two far-left radical socialists, and is that what America really wants?

“It’s going to be President Trump and Vice President Pence on the ballot against two of our Nation’s most RADICAL Democrats: Sleepy Joe Biden and Phony Kamala Harris. Both of them are corrupt career politicians who LOVE anarchy and HATE America. ... It’s REAL Americans vs. SOCIALISTS,” said a fundraising email from the Trump campaign.

The characterization of Biden and Harris as socialists stretches the boundaries of believability. Biden, the former vice president, was considered one of the most moderate candidates in the Democratic presidential primary. He opposes “Medicare for All,” a Green New Deal and full college debt forgiveness. He frequently had to defend his more conservative positions and the deals he cut with Republicans.

While to the left of Biden, Harris often frustrated progressives for her record on criminal justice as California attorney general and her unwillingness to embrace ideas like Medicare for All.

There was a democratic socialist in the race, but he lost. And he was far more progressive than both Biden and Harris, currently a senator from California. But in Donald Trump’s world, they’re basically the same as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

In a Trump campaign call with reporters, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said the Harris announcement “completed the leftist takeover of the party.” Trump campaign senior adviser Katrina Pierson said Biden “is an empty shell being filled with the extreme agenda of the radicals on the left.”

Actual democratic socialists and progressives found these claims absurd.

“If Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are secret socialists, why are actual socialists like me constantly talking about how...

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