Bernie Sanders outlines policy agenda more liberal than Harris' plan. That could help her
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., spent his primetime appearance at Tuesday night's Democratic National Convention laying out his own policy priorities — even ones that he knows diverge from Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign platform. "We need to join the rest of the industrialized world and guarantee health care to all people as a human right, not a privilege," Sanders said, doubling down on his longstanding support for a Medicare for All program. The Independent senator running for reelection in Vermont was well aware that Harris does not share his position on universal healthcare. "We need Medicare for All," he said in a Monday interview with Politico. "That's not her view, nor is it President Biden's point of view. And you know what, I think I'm right and they're wrong." During his DNC speech, Sanders