Bernie Sanders Campaign Denies Involvement With Memo Circulating About Joe Biden's 'Obvious Cognitiv

[Beaverhausen]

https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-campaign-denies-involvement-memo-circulating-about-joe-bidens-obvious-mental-1490513?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR09psHeFp8tIopebPdnAnrVacqJEW11MWD97KWe9KtOjlFggtGdwI6OJQ8#Echobox=1583339281

Bernie Sanders Campaign Denies Involvement With Memo Circulating About Joe Biden's 'Obvious Cognitive Decline'

he Bernie Sanders presidential campaign is disavowing a list of post-Super Tuesday talking points distributed to supporters and surrogates on Wednesday morning that suggest Sanders partisans attack a resurgent Joe Biden on his "record and obvious cognitive decline."

The material, seen by Newsweek, was posted on various social media sites and on internal WhatsApp groups for supporters of the independent Vermont senator as an official campaign communique, but Sanders communications director Mike Caspa said he'd never seen it before.

"That's not a real document," he told Newsweek. "It's not ours."

"This is now a 2-person race, and there will be heightened scrutiny on Biden's record and obvious cognitive decline," the document reads.

The question of alleged Biden "cognitive decline" is a line of attack on Biden frequently visited by President Donald Trump and other critics of the former vice president. At a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Monday, Trump said, "They're going to put him into a home and other people are going to be running the country." He has also often lampooned Biden's propensity for gaffes, like opening his victory speech on Tuesday night by mixing up his sister and his wife.

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[we can do it]

1. Of course they do.🙄

[George II]

2. I wouldn't doubt if Sirota was behind this. It's his MO.

[Hortensis]

7. No major new smear campaign against Biden would be launched

without Sanders himself directing it.

We know that, but for those who may not, Sanders is very well known to be a strong micromanager, even overdoing to the point that at various times observers in VT and nationally have believed it handicapped his management. Anyway, this is SOP for him. As are the attack dogs he hires to execute these things for him.

Sirota, sure. And look for Russia and the RW candidate assassination machine to kick in.

[redstatebluegirl]

3. Sure, whatever they say...not.

[Me.]

4. Of I Were The BS Campaign Right NOw, I'd Be Careful

cause karma can be a bitch...same goes for the dump. I always said BS will be finished by the end of April and I don't think the dump is going to make it to the finish line either

[USALiberal]

11. "Of I Was"??? nt

[Me.]

12. Yes I Saw It

[AGeddy]

5. Bernie's staff is as amoral as Trump's

[Docreed2003]

6. Is this like in 16 where "Hillary has Parkinson's"

[underpants]

8. I heard "Dementia" on talk radio this morning

Sounds like Bernie Bro’s are taking their cues from there. Just FYI.

[Cha]

9. This obvious sign of Desperation won't work

[awesomerwb1]

10. Shocker

That's exactly what bernie surrogates would do. Nasty people.

Very trumpian as well.

[pampango]

13. Surely Trump and the GOP are above doing something like this to foment division

in the Democratic Party. Plus it gives them an issue to use against Joe in the general. I can see it now, "Witness the memo that came up during the Democratic primary questioning Biden's cognitive abilities." Pure gold for Trump and the GOP.

[mopinko]

14. bernie should drop out and give warren a path.

[itsrobert]

16. Should*

*But he wont.

[C_U_L8R]

15. it's a pattern and voters aren't buying it.

[highplainsdem]

17. Hmm. Would the campaign that lied about Bloomberg's health lie about Biden's?