“I’ll take Biden’s Top Flops for $500, Alex.”
Wash/po July 2020——Sanders was the candidate’s as Biden makde the most important decision of his campaign: whom to choose as his running mate.
“I’m privileged to say I’ve been let into the circle to do this work,” Sanders said.
Breaking into Biden’s inner circle was never straightforward. When Sanders joined the campaign in spring 2019 as a senior adviser, she drew sharp criticism from liberal activists baffled that a young, outspoken black woman, and a former top aide to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), would lend her voice and charisma to a centrist Democratic politician.
It was no easier when Sanders quickly discovered that she was excluded from the daily 8:30 a.m. phone call among Biden’s top strategists, where major decisions were often made.