Sanders fans’ threats ‘outrageous’: Biden

Bloomberg

Joe Biden said threats against officials at a prominent Nevada union that criticised Bernie Sanders’ health care plan by some supporters of the Vermont senator were “outrageous.”
The threats were “vicious, malicious,” and “misogynistic,” Biden said in an excerpt of an interview on Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
The former vice president called on Sanders to accept greater accountability for the tactics and rhetoric of his staunchest supporters: “He may not be responsible for
it but he has some accountability…if any of my supporters did that, I’d disown them,” Biden said.
The Nevada branch of the Culinary Workers Union said that Sander’s backers had “viciously attacked” its members after the labour group warned about the possible impact of Sanders’ Medicare for All proposal in a scorecard sizing up different candidates’ plans. The Nevada Independent reported that two union officials had faced threatening phone calls, emails and tweets, and say their personal information was shared online.
The union declined to endorse in Nevada’s Democratic caucus, to be held February 22.
The Iowa Democratic Party named state Representative Mark Smith as its new chair, it said in a tweet, almost two weeks after the botched presidential caucus in the state.
The party said on Twitter that Smith is a sixth-generation Iowan with “the breadth of experience and record of leadership to strengthen our path to victory and elect Democrats up and down the ballot.”
President Donald Trump is crashing another early Democratic nominating contest, scheduling a rally in Las Vegas a day before the Nevada caucuses are held on February 22.