Prez names Meadows 4th chief of staff
would need to win just about every single one of those delegates in order to qualify for this month’s debate.
The Arizona debate would mark campaign’s smallest yet if Sanders and Biden end up the only candidates on stage. All 10 previous debates have featured at least six candidates.
In a preview of the likely face-off, Biden and Sanders have openly criticized each other at an increasing rate in the past few days. Sanders is grilling
Biden over his Senate record, which included voting in favor of the Iraq war and proposing cuts to Social Security and other entitlement programs.
“This is the most important election of our lifetimes. We will not defeat Donald Trump in November with a candidate who has repeatedly advocated for cuts to Social Security,” Sanders tweeted Friday along with a decades-old clip in which Biden said “everything,” including entitlement programs, must be on the budget chopping block.
Biden has punched back by shredding Sanders’ embrace of democratic socialism as a recipe for a general election disaster while questioning the logic of the Vermont senator’s line of attack.
“Get real, Bernie,” Biden tweeted. “The only person who’s going to cut Social Security if he’s elected is Donald Trump. Maybe you should spend your time attacking him.”
President Trump on Friday named a Republican congressman from North Carolina as the fourth chief of staff of his threeyear-old presidency.
Rep. Mark Meadows — considered one of Trump’s staunchest allies in Congress — had announced he would not seek re-election to his seat in far western North Carolina.
He’s a backer of the idea that the FBI perpetuated a “false Russian collusion hoax,” and says Trump deserves credit for “America’s incredible accomplishments the last 3 years.”
“I have long known and worked with Mark, and the relationship is a very good one,” Trump wrote on Twitter.
The 60-year-old Meadows (inset) will replace Mick Mulvaney, a former South Carolina congressman who had been Trump’s acting chief of staff since January 2019.
Trump gave Mulvaney a new job as U.S. special envoy for Northern Ireland.