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Bernie Sanders: “President Biden [was] the first president of the United…”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Published | Video Starts at 02:26

We canceled student debt for over 5 million Americans. And as somebody who is a very strong supporter of the trade union movement, I was really pleased to see President Biden [was] the first president of the United States to ever walk on a picket line. That's a big deal. And standing up for American work. So for all of those reasons, I was proud to support his domestic policies and I wanted to see him get a second term. (02:26–02:32)

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Asserts that Biden was the first U.S. president to walk on a picket line.

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