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President Biden's co-chair for the 2024 run brushed disconnected Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' examination of the rampant anti-Israel protests connected assemblage campuses to the 1968 election, arguing Biden could beryllium handling his ain Vietnam situation.
The nationalist co-chair of Biden's run unopen down Sanders' examination successful remark to CNN connected Sunday, calling it an "over-exaggeration."
"This is simply a precise antithetic circumstance," Mitch Landrieu told CNN's Jake Tapper connected Sunday. "I deliberation that radical who really lived done that precise hard time, they would accidental that this isn’t comparable. However, that is not to accidental that this is not a precise superior matter."
Last week, Sanders joined CNN’s Christiane Amanpour and reflected connected the 1960s, erstwhile President Lydon B. Johnson did not tally for re-election successful 1968, and made a examination betwixt Biden's handling of assemblage protests to Johnson's deficiency of enactment for the Vietnam War up of the wide election.
FILE - White House infrastructure coordinator Mitch Landrieu speaks during a briefing astatine the White House, May 12, 2023, successful Washington. The monolithic national effort to grow net entree to each location successful the U.S. took a large measurement guardant connected Friday with the announcement of $930 cardinal successful "middle mile" grants to enactment up connections successful dozens of places astir the state wherever important gaps successful connectivity persist. "These networks are the workhorses carrying ample amounts of information implicit precise agelong distances," said Landrieu. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
"I americium reasoning backmost and different radical are making this notation that this whitethorn beryllium Biden’s Vietnam," Sanders said.
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"[Former President] Lyndon Johnson successful galore respects was a very, precise bully president. Domestically helium brought distant immoderate large pieces of legislation. He chose not to tally successful ’68 due to the fact that of absorption to his views connected Vietnam, and I interest precise overmuch that President Biden is putting himself successful a presumption wherever helium has alienated, not conscionable young people, but a batch of the Democratic base, successful presumption of his views connected Israel and this war," Sanders continued.
FILE - Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a proceeding connected Capitol Hill successful Washington, Thursday, June 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
College protesters and extracurricular agitators person descended connected assemblage campuses from seashore to seashore since past month, establishing encampments, specified arsenic the "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" that was connected Columbia's field earlier constabulary removed it, wherever they request schools chopped each fiscal ties to Israel. Amid the assemblage chaos, agitators and radicals person besides called for the deaths of Israel, the U.S., and pledged enactment for Hamas' attacks connected Israel.
Biden has condemned the unit and antisemitism connected campus, but took days to publically code the federation past week arsenic field protests intensified.
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"There should beryllium nary spot connected immoderate campus, nary spot successful America for antisemitism oregon threats of unit against Jewish students. There is nary spot for hatred code oregon unit of immoderate kind, whether it's antisemitism, Islamophobia, oregon favoritism against Arab-Americans oregon Palestinian Americans. It's simply wrong. There's nary spot for racism successful America. It's each wrong. It's un-American," Biden said past week.
President Joe Biden speaks astatine Abbotts Creek Community Center during an lawsuit to beforehand his economical docket successful Raleigh, North Carolina, connected January 18, 2024. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
His remark was ripped for denouncing Islamophobia and antisemitism successful the aforesaid breath, with critics comparing it to erstwhile President Donald Trump's comments denouncing the Charlottesville riots successful 2017, erstwhile the 45th president said determination were "very good radical connected some sides."
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Landrieu continued successful his comments that Biden has shown "very strong" enactment amid the protests.
NYPD officers apprehension anti-Israel protesters arsenic they artifact the roadways extracurricular Senator Chuck Schumer’s Brooklyn location successful New York City connected Tuesday, April 23, 2024. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)
"First of all, the First Amendment is critically important. The president has ever believed that radical privation to person the accidental to redress their grievances against the government. This is not thing new," Landrieu said.
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"The president has been precise beardown astir this from the beginning, and the president came retired the different day, and arsenic helium said, arsenic helium has ever said, helium understands that people person a close to protest, but they person to bash truthful peacefully," helium continued. "But erstwhile it turns violent, that’s erstwhile things person to end."
A pro-Palestinian demonstrator holds a emblem connected the rooftop of Hamilton Hall astatine Columbia University successful New York, US, connected Tuesday, April 30, 2024. Pro-Palestinian pupil demonstrators barricaded themselves successful the Hamilton Hall gathering astatine Columbia connected Tuesday aft the schoolhouse began suspending students who defied an bid to wide their encampment. (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Critics of the president's handling, however, person condemned Biden for taking 9 days to code the anti-Israel field agitators connected camera. The White House had condemned the hatred and unit successful assorted comments to the media, but the president did not code the federation on-camera until Thursday past week.
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"Very passionate opinions connected some sides of this issue," Landrieu continued. "The president has been handling it very, precise good and he’s going to proceed to bash so."
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