Hickenlooper reverses course, denounces Sanders and his embrace of 'democratic socialism' by jonward11
WASHINGTON—John Hickenlooper, one of more than 20 Democratic hopefuls for the 2020 presidential election, took a definitive step toward the center and away from the left during a speech Thursday in Washington.
After delivering the short speech, in which he also called on Democrats to definitively state their allegiance to capitalism, he mused about the challenge for second- and third-tier candidates in upcoming presidential primary debates. And so while the stated reason for Hickenlooper’s speech Thursday was to criticize the Democratic party’s leftward drift, there was a clear political upside to calling out Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., by name.
And by staking out territory firmly in the anti-socialist camp, Hickenlooper appears to be positioning himself to step up if frontrunner Joe Biden, the former senator and vice president, falters and leaves a vacuum in the center-left lane of the party. “Do you consider yourself a proud capitalist?” asked host Joe Scarborough, a former Republican congressman from Florida.
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