“To those people who are saying, ‘Well, I can’t support Harris because she disagrees [with] Trump on that issue’ … he will be closer to Netanyahu,” Sanders said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Sanders said he thinks Vice President Harris can be moved “on that issue” of the Israel-Hamas war.

Harris has called for a cease-fire deal and pushed for the war in Gaza to end, but she faces scrutiny from both sides — from people who want to see Hamas defeated and those who call for the end of the war in Gaza.

“So, if we are able to elect Harris, I think we’re going to have an opportunity to move her on that issue, to make it clear, we cannot allow children in Gaza to starve to death,” Sanders said. “She will be open to that. I doubt that Trump will.”

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    With Trump they can just bribe him directly since real elections will no longer be necessary.

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        The problem is, Joe can’t be the first to seize power, because that act would end democracy.

        Also, to end democracy you need the buy in from most of the administrative state.

        That’s the huge part of project 2025. Dismantling and rebuilding the administrative state into something that will support authoritarianism.

        Biden has not, and will not, do any of that work for a future dictator.