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The political veterans battling to challenge Trump
what is now a two-horse race with
Bernie Sanders. Sanders also won
big, taking his home state of
Vermont as well as Utah,
Colorado and California.
But Biden won
southern and midwest
states while scoring a
dramatic upset in Texas.
He even took rival Elizabeth
Warren’s home state of Massachu-
setts – where he did not appear in
person and where Sanders had
campaigned aggressively.
The results ended the pres-
idential hopes of billionaire
Michael Bloomberg, who
dropped out yesterday.
It is a remarkable turn-
around for Biden, 77, who
said: “We were told, well,
when you got to Super
Tuesday, it’d be over. Well, it may
be over for the other guy. Make no
mistake, this campaign will send
Donald Trump packing.”
Mr Sanders, 78, echoed him,
saying: “We are going to defeat the
most dangerous president in the
history of this country.”
So who are the two veteran poli-
ticians hoping to knock Trump out
of the saddle and which campaign
would you take a punt on?
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by christopher bucktin
US Editor
Biden vs Bernie
many Democrat voters, especially
African-Americans, cite his
relationship with Obama in
explaining their support for him.
Over the years, biden has
changed his stance on many issues,
bringing himself more in line with
the Democratic Party of today.
but some voters may find it hard
to forget the senator he once was.
He voted for the Iraq War as
chair of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee. In the “tough
on crime” era of the 1990s, he
voted for mandatory minimum
sentences for drug
trafficking and
increased funding for
federal prisons – both
policies contributing
to mass incarceration.
However, his fight
for healthcare to be “a
right for all”, 30 years
of tackling climate
change and openness
to immigration all led
to huge support.
In addition, he has
called for a rise in the minimum
wage to £11.70, released a criminal
justice plan focused on prevention
and supports same-sex marriage.
He is also known as one of the
most empathetic US politicians.
but biden is not without
controversy, having been accused
of inappropriately touching women
- which he denies. If elected, he
would be the oldest President to
date at his inauguration, aged 78.- have now been embraced by
many Democrats. Running for
President a second time, he is one
of the best-known candidates but
remains something of an outsider.
A self-described democratic
socialist, he has never joined the
party he hopes to lead. Sometimes
likened to Jeremy Corbyn, Sanders
has long called for eliminating all
student debt. This earned plaudits
but some questioned its feasibility.
Sanders is a strong campaigner
on universal healthcare and climate
change. He frequently attacks the
fossil fuel industry
and has vowed to
stop letting it
“destroy our planet
for profit” as
President.
He has referred to
Trump’s immigration
policies as “heartless”
and will offer most
undocumented
immigrants a route to
citizenship , also
backing immigration
reform. He is also passionate about
racial equality.
Sanders, called Crazy bernie by
Trump, is well known for his dislike
of millionaires. but according to 10
years of tax returns last year, he
and his wife reported income that
topped £800,000 in 2016 and 2017,
in part from book proceeds.
If elected, he too would be the
oldest President in history – aged
79 when he took office.
- have now been embraced by
Joe biDen, 77 bernie sanDers, 78
the ex-vice president the socialist firebrand
A
s the field jockeying for the
Democrat nomination to
challenge Donald Trump
went into Super Tuesday,
Joe Biden was trailing after gaffe-
filled campaigning and looked
totally out of the running.
But in a result that stunned
pundits, the former Vice President
emerged as the frontrunner inViewed as a hero by working-class
voters, biden served as Vice
President throughout barack
Obama’s administration.
As a key architect of the
Affordable Care Act, healthcare
remains his top priority – and for
good reason, following a series of
family tragedies.
He lost his first wife, Neilia
Hunter, and baby daughter Naomi
in a car accident in 1972. And in
2015, his lawyer son beau died of
brain cancer. Healthcare, he says, is
“personal” to him.
biden, who served
for decades in the
Senate, was born in
1942 in Scranton,
Pennsylvania, and
moved as a child to
Delaware. He still
commutes from there
to Washington.
As a politician, he
has maintained close
ties to both states,
though Trump has
accused him of
having “deserted” Pennsylvania. “I
was in third grade,” biden hit back.
biden maintains strong ties to
Pennsylvania, a critical election
battleground that Trump won in- He has based his campaign
headquarters in Philadelphia.
Although not endorsed by
Obama, he talks of their friendship
frequently, as well as the work they
did together on issues ranging from
healthcare to foreign policy. And
With an anti-establishment style
that has changed little over five
decades, Senator bernie Sanders
has attracted a loyal following.
born in New york and the son of
a salesman and a housewife, he
wed his second wife, political
consultant Jane O’Meara, in 1988,
honeymooning in Russia. A year
later, they flew to Cuba hoping to
meet Fidel Castro but had to settle
for the mayor of Havana.
Sanders has a son, Levi, from a
previous relationship and three
stepchildren. For most of his 20s
and 30s, he lived “just
one step above hand
to mouth”, barely
paying his bills as a
jobbing carpenter and
freelance writer.
Sanders became
interested in politics
in 1971 at a meeting in
Vermont of the small,
anti-war Liberty
Union Party, raising
his hand to run for the
Senate. His bid was
unsuccessful. He became an
elected official in 1981, as mayor of
burlington in Vermont.
Ten years later, he was elected to
the House of Representatives as
Vermont’s sole congressman. In
2006, he moved to the Senate.
Some see him as a visionary.
Sanders boasts some of his agenda
items once considered radical –
“Medicare for all”, an £11.
minimum wage, free public collegeMany cite his
relationship
with Obama
in explaining
their support
A democratic
socialist, he’s
never joined
the party he
hopes to lead
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TORIES turning a blind eye to bullying
means every day Priti Patel clings on as
Home Secretary is another day Boris
Johnson shows his party and Govern-
ment are abandoning high standards.
The PM’s defence of his beleaguered Minister
makes a mockery of the Cabinet Office inquiry
into her behaviour, Downing Street effectively
clearing the aggressive Patel in advance.
Claims a civil servant who took an overdose
was ignored by the Party adds to the growing
impression that the Tories are quick to accuse
other parties of wrongdoing, but ignore
unacceptable behaviour in their own ranks.
When complaints against the Home
Secretary are heard from three departments,
it increasingly sounds as if she is far more than
just an assertive right-winger.
Bullying is counter-productive as well as
wrong. Johnson sticking by Patel is a self-
defeating act he’ll deservedly come to regret.
Sick pay vital
NO one should miss out on sick pay or
millions might be forced to go to work
just to survive while suffering from the
coronavirus – furthering its spread.
Unless the lowest paid, people on zero hours
and the self-employed are covered, the Govern-
ment is creating a dangerous hole in defences
against an unpredictable threat.
Delaying the release of the new Bond movie,
No Time To Die, is a relatively small move in
the grand scheme of precautions, but,
nevertheless, very telling.
Our lives will, no doubt, be disrupted over
the next few months. Losing as few lives as
possible to Covid-19 is the ultimate goal.
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SIPPING pints of Guinness after paying
their respects to those who died fighting
for independence from Britain is a signif-
icant move from the heir to the UK throne
and his wife in the Republic of Ireland.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s visit
represents the warm friendship between two
neighbours who were once enemies.
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