Bernie Sanders outlines policy agenda more liberal than Harris' plan. That could help her

• Sen. Bernie Sanders spent his primetime appearance the DNC laying out his own policy priorities — ones that he knows are very different from Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign platform.
• Donald Trump has worked to frame Harris as a hardline liberal politician, an attempt to scare off Democratic-curious undecided voters.
• Sanders has offered mostly tepid support for Harris and her policy proposals so far.
• This could bolster the Harris campaign's argument to center-leaning voters that the vice president is not as far left as Republicans make her out to be.

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 also railed against the influence of big money in politics, in spite of all the billionaire megadonors helping to fund Harris' campaign.

"Billionaires in both parties should not be able to buy elections—including primary elections," Sanders said.

Harris has a well-documented Rolodex of billionaire megadonors helping fund her campaign, along with millions more in