"Squad" member Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Monday said she will not endorse Democratic nominee Joe Biden - just hours after a co-chair of Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign likened voting for Biden to eating "a bowl of s-t.".
In an interview with Newsweek on Monday, Tlaib, a Democratic representative from Michigan and Sanders acolyte, said she was focused on delivering the battleground state for Biden but will not endorse him because it will supposedly cause arguments with constituents in her district where she is facing a tough primary challenge.
"Residents come up to me and say, 'Rashida, I don't know. I hear Joe Biden this, Joe Biden that.' I say, 'Listen, do we need another four years of Trump? No. Then what I need you to do is go out there and focus on that,'" the Muslim congresswoman said.
"If the ultimate goal is to get rid of Donald Trump, that doesn't have to involve me actually endorsing Biden," she continued.
As a historically centrist Biden tries to make peace with the increasingly noisy left flank of the Democratic Party, hundreds of Bernie Sanders delegates are also vowing to vote against the party's platform if it doesn't include the socialist's signature "Medicare For All" policy.
According to the Fox report, Biden has 2,632 delegates, while Sanders has 1,076 - meaning that half of the progressive senator's delegates are threatening to revolt.
Biden has bent over backwards to accommodate Sanders and other socialist democrats like Bronx-born AOC, bringing them in as advisors and consulting them on policy in a bid to win their support and base of energized, young voters.
In an interview with Newsweek on Monday, Tlaib, a Democratic representative from Michigan and Sanders acolyte, said she was focused on delivering the battleground state for Biden but will not endorse him because it will supposedly cause arguments with constituents in her district where she is facing a tough primary challenge.
"Residents come up to me and say, 'Rashida, I don't know. I hear Joe Biden this, Joe Biden that.' I say, 'Listen, do we need another four years of Trump? No. Then what I need you to do is go out there and focus on that,'" the Muslim congresswoman said.
"If the ultimate goal is to get rid of Donald Trump, that doesn't have to involve me actually endorsing Biden," she continued.
As a historically centrist Biden tries to make peace with the increasingly noisy left flank of the Democratic Party, hundreds of Bernie Sanders delegates are also vowing to vote against the party's platform if it doesn't include the socialist's signature "Medicare For All" policy.
According to the Fox report, Biden has 2,632 delegates, while Sanders has 1,076 - meaning that half of the progressive senator's delegates are threatening to revolt.
Biden has bent over backwards to accommodate Sanders and other socialist democrats like Bronx-born AOC, bringing them in as advisors and consulting them on policy in a bid to win their support and base of energized, young voters.
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