President Biden’s co-chair for the 2024 campaign brushed off Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ comparison of the rampant anti-Israel protests on college campuses to the 1968 election, arguing Biden could be handling his own Vietnam situation.
The national co-chair of Biden’s campaign shut down Sanders’ comparison in comment to CNN on Sunday, calling it an “over-exaggeration.”
“This is a very different circumstance,” Mitch Landrieu told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday. “I think that people who actually lived through that very difficult time, they would say that this isn’t comparable. However, that is not to say that this is not a very serious matter.”
Last week, Sanders joined CNN’s Christiane Amanpour and reflected on the 1960s, when President Lydon B. Johnson did not run for re-election in 1968, and made a comparison between Biden’s handling of college protests to Johnson’s lack of support for the Vietnam War ahead of the general election.
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FILE – White House infrastructure coordinator Mitch Landrieu speaks during a briefing at the White House, May 12, 2023, in Washington. The massive federal effort to expand internet access to every home in the U.S. took a major step forward on Friday with the announcement of $930 million in “middle mile” grants to shore up connections in dozens of places around the country where significant gaps in connectivity persist. “These networks are the workhorses carrying large amounts of data over very long distances,” said Landrieu. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
“I am thinking back and other people are making this reference that this may be Biden’s Vietnam,” Sanders said.
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“[Former President] Lyndon Johnson in many respects was a very, very good president. Domestically he brought forth some major pieces of legislation. He…
