Biden targets Sanders's gun votes in remarks near Las Vegas mass shooting
Former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenHillicon Valley: Biden calls on Facebook to change political speech rules | Dems demand hearings after Georgia election chaos | Microsoft stops selling facial recognition tech to police Trump finalizing executive order calling on police to use ‘force with compassion’ The Hill’s Campaign Report: Biden campaign goes on offensive against Facebook MORE during a speech in Las Vegas on Saturday took a veiled swipe at fellow 2020 White House hopeful Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersThe Hill’s 12:30 Report: Milley apologizes for church photo-op Harris grapples with defund the police movement amid veep talk Biden courts younger voters — who have been a weakness MORE’s (I-Vt.) vote to exempt gun manufacturers from liability for shootings.
“When I’m the president, we’ll take [gun manufacturers] on, remove the immunity and allow those parents who are trying now to sue for the pain and mayhem they have caused,” Biden said at a county Democratic Party dinner less than a mile from the site of the deadliest shooting by a lone gunman in U.S. history in 2017, The Associated Press reported.
Biden did not reference Sanders by name in his comments on the 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, saying only “some of the people running for office voted for that exemption.”
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“Ladies and gentlemen that immunity was granted. Granted. And it was a horrible, horrible decision,” Biden added.
Sanders voted for the law as a representative, but in January 2016 said he would sponsor a bill to repeal it.
Biden also touted his health-care proposals, again taking a dig at rivals to his left in the race by saying “I can actually get my plan passed.”
Sanders’s and Sen. Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth WarrenWarren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases OVERNIGHT DEFENSE: Joint Chiefs chairman says he regrets participating in Trump photo-op | GOP senators back Joint Chiefs chairman who voiced regret over Trump photo-op | Senate panel approves 0B defense policy bill Trump on collision course with Congress over bases with Confederate names MORE’s (D-Mass.) “Medicare for All” proposals became a major flashpoint ahead of the Nevada caucuses when the state’s influential Culinary Union claimed in flyers that such a plan would eliminate members’ benefits.
At the same event, Sanders himself took the stage, training much of his own fire on former New York Mayor Michael BloombergMichael BloombergEngel scrambles to fend off primary challenge from left It’s as if a Trump operative infiltrated the Democratic primary process Liberals embrace super PACs they once shunned MORE, who will not be formally competing until Super Tuesday but has launched a blitz of TV advertising using his personal wealth.
“The simple truth is that Mayor Bloomberg, with all his money, will not create the kind of excitement and energy we need to have the voter turnout we must have to defeat Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE,” Sanders said, criticizing Bloomberg’s history of support of “racist policies like stop and frisk” and opposition to minimum wage increases and tax hikes on the wealthy.
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