November 23, 2020 Biden's secretary of state pick praised by Bernie Sanders' advisers Two advisers close to Sen. Bernie Sanders have taken to Twitter to praise President-elect Joe Biden's secretary of state pick, Antony Blinken, following the administration's official announcement on Monday.
November 23, 2020 Kerry vows to treat climate change as 'urgent national security threat' After four years on the sidelines, John Kerry is getting back into politics to combat climate change.
November 21, 2020 Bernie Sanders renews call for stimulus payments, slams ‘do-nothing Senate’ Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., renewed his calls for $2,000 monthly stimulus payments on Saturday, called for $600-a-month unemployment payments and slammed what he described as a “do-nothing Senate” amid stalled negotiations over a relief package.
November 20, 2020 Biden transition official asks progressives to wait 'before they pass judgment’ Amid criticism from progressive groups over President-elect Joe Biden’s choices so far for top White House officials, a leading Biden transition official on Friday encouraged people to wait to see the full picture of the team the president-elect names and highlighted that the Biden administration would include a “diversity of political views.”
November 20, 2020 Bernie Sanders: 'Enormously insulting' if Biden ignores progressives in his administration Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, leaders of the Democratic Party's left wing, are at risk of being excluded from the senior ranks of President-elect Joe Biden's administration as the incoming president balances the demands of his party's progressive base against the political realities of a narrowly divided Senate.
November 19, 2020 Bernie Sanders makes case for being Biden's Labor secretary, says 'would be a very attractive position’ Sen. Bernie Sanders made the case to join the Biden administration Thursday, saying that serving as secretary of Labor for President-elect Joe Biden “would be a very attractive position.”
November 16, 2020 Sen. Susan Collins says voters rejected Bernie Sanders' 'far-left agenda', calls for moderate compromise The 2020 election was a rejection of the "far-left" policies of people like Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, told "The Story" in an exclusive interview Monday.
November 15, 2020 Sanders says he doesn't know anyone who wants to defund police. Has he met AOC? Sen. Bernie Sanders distanced himself and his progressive colleagues from the idea of defunding police departments in a wide-ranging interview on Sunday, claiming that "nobody I know who's running for office talks about defunding the police."
November 15, 2020 Bernie Sanders claims 'far-left agenda' supported by 'the majority of American people' Sen. Bernie Sanders maintained on Sunday his confidence in President-elect Biden to uphold the progressive policies their two teams agreed to prior to the election, insisting that his "far-left agenda" is in fact something "the majority of American people support."
November 13, 2020 Bernie Sanders raising money for Raphael Warnock in Georgia Senate race Sen. Bernie Sanders is one of many top national politicians to get involved in the Georgia Senate runoffs so far, sending out a fundraising email on behalf of Democrat Raphael Warnock, who is challenging Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, on Thursday.