Former political captive says Sanders questioned Cuba criticisms during prison meet

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Former political captive says Sanders questioned Cuba criticisms during prison meet

Alan Gross lost 110 pounds and several teeth while imprisoned for five years in Cuba. But during a visit in prison by Sen. Bernie Sanders in 2014, Gross says the Vermont senator told him that he did not understand why the island was so harshly criticized.

“I don’t know what’s so wrong about this country,” Sanders said during a one-hour meeting with the prisoner and two other members of Congress visiting Havana, Gross told the Miami Herald.

“I thought it was a pretty insensitive thing for him to say,” Gross said. “Couldn’t he see, with his own eyes, what was going on around the country that he’s been traveling through? And I was a hostage to the government of the country that he didn’t see anything wrong with.”

Gross said he didn’t reply to the senator. Although there were no guards present, Gross suspects Cuban authorities were recording the conversation.

“I was kind of shocked,” Gross said.

Sanders’ campaign did not respond Wednesday to Gross’ comments, published first by NPR Wednesday less than two weeks before the March 17 Florida Democratic primary.

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1. That should go over well in Florida

[lark]

2. Nope - that's anathema in southern FL for sure.

Joe will kill in my state, I predict he will win by at least 20-30% over Sanders, could be a ton more?

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3. +++

[Kerrycrat]

4. Shades of Jane Fonda

Is that fair? It’s what popped into my head

[Gothmog]

5. sanders' support of Castro would kill down ballot candidates in Florida if sanders was the nominee

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6. Why would he do that?

[Gothmog]

7. sanders comments on Castro are hurting sanders

Link to tweet

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[BGBD]

8. The 60 Minutes interview

will go down in history as one of the worst moments in a Presidential campaign.

Sanders was riding high at that point, but it led into a week of terrible coverage for him at the exact moment that Biden was gathering strength with the Clyburn endorsement.

Most people, rightfully, are not fans of the Castro Regime. They also don't want to hear a campaign do something stupid and then defend it by saying Obama did that same thing. That's a Trump tactic and people, especially democratic voters, are tired of it. It also reminded people that Sanders is a radical and that's just not where the vast majority of people in this country are.