Chuck Darwin<p>Sanders warns Biden: address working-class fears or risk losing to demagogue </p><p>Bernie Sanders, America’s leading progressive politician, has issued a stark warning to Joe Biden at the start of presidential election year: <br>be more aggressive in addressing the anxieties of millions of struggling voters or risk handing back the White House to the anti-democratic demagogue Donald Trump.</p><p>In an interview with the Guardian from his home base in Burlington, Vermont, Sanders urged the Democratic president to inject more urgency into his bid for re-election. </p><p>He said that unless the president was more direct in recognising the many crises faced by working-class families his Republican rival would win.</p><p>“We’ve got to see the White House move more aggressively on <a href="https://c.im/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>healthcare</span></a>, on <a href="https://c.im/tags/housing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>housing</span></a>, on <a href="https://c.im/tags/taxreform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>taxreform</span></a>, on the high cost of <a href="https://c.im/tags/prescription" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prescription</span></a> drugs,” Sanders said. </p><p>“If we can get the president to move in that direction, he will win; if not, he’s going to lose.”</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/13/sanders-warns-biden-working-class-voters-presidential-election?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2024/j</span><span class="invisible">an/13/sanders-warns-biden-working-class-voters-presidential-election?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p>