Post doubles down on Sanders criticism
The Washington Post is doubling down on its criticism of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders after the independent Vermont senator slammed an editorial this week that said his campaign is peddling “fiction.”
The Post maintained Friday that the U.S. could “use big measures” on issues such as climate change, public health, poverty and entitlement programs, among other issues, that Sanders has focused on.
{mosads}”What concerns us is not that Mr. Sanders’s program to tackle these issues is ‘radical,’ as he put it, but that it is not very well thought out,” the Post asserted in its lead editorial Friday.
The newspaper said that Sanders’s healthcare plan “rests on unbelievable assumptions” about slashing costs without negatively impacting care and noted analysis showing high costs for the plan.
While Sanders often mentions countries such as Canada and France spending far less on healthcare than the U.S., the Post said those countries “ration care in ways that federal health programs in the United States, such as Medicare, do not.”
The editorial also tweaked his push for higher taxes on the wealthy and views on foreign affairs.
Sanders had pushed back on the newspaper Thursday after it ran an editorial saying the liberal candidate needs a “reality check.”
Hours after the scathing editorial, Sanders defended his campaign platform and slammed the “geniuses” at the newspaper, mocking the editorial board for its support of the Iraq War.
Sanders is battling Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, with the two locked in a close race in Iowa ahead of its Monday caucuses.
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