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Elizabeth Warren vs. Bernie Sanders

How do Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders' policies compare? Here are 6 key differences.

The 2020 presidential race has the potential to depart radically from the norm

What exactly are the differences between progressive 2020 frontrunners Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders? Sanders is a proud Democratic Socialist. Warren is a capitalist — as she made clear on Showtime's The Circus. Sanders is an Independent who only ran as a Democrat in 2016. Warren has been a Democrat since 1996. If elected…Warren says she would put an end to the Senate filibuster. Sanders indicated to The Huffington Post that he wouldn’t do it. The Medicare for All bill was written by Sanders. Warren also supports Medicare for All, but say she'd pay for it without raising taxes on the middle class. Both would reform the Supreme Court. Warren, by adding more judges and Sanders by introducing term limits. Both have also proposed a wealth tax. Sanders' would raise $4.35 trillion in 10 years. Warren’s would raise $2.75 trillion in the same period.

Bernie and Warren team up in primary debates

Not long ago, both Sanders and Warren were political outliers, and no mainstream Democrat would touch “fringe” issues like Medicare for All or a Green New Deal with an eleven-foot pole. Years ago, vague promises of “Yes, we can” seemed enough to win hearts and minds and then sell us more of the same old “No, we can’t.” Even further back, Democratic candidates refused to even admit they were “liberals,” let alone radicals or socialists. It is undeniably good for the Left — and a sign of the leftward leaning, radicalizing times that we live in — that Warren and Sanders have dominated the political debates and mainstream discussions during the primary season. Bernie’s signature “Medicare for All” proposal went from a pipe dream of leftists to the yardstick against which other platforms are evaluated, seemingly overnight.

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12/18/2019 12:57 PM
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70 comments

  • Indy R.
    02/21/2020 04:34

    So you save $9,000 in health insurance premiums, co-pays, deductibles and prescriptions but your taxes go up by $2,000.. yeah, real tough math there 🙄. Bernie all the way!!!

  • Michael C.
    01/01/2020 02:33

    Get out of my pay check! I'm already taxed enough!

  • Daniel H.
    12/31/2019 19:29

    If they are the front runners the dems a screwed for sure

  • Tom A.
    12/31/2019 18:05

    It doesn't matter. She's an angry, dismissive, condescending shrew, and he can't do math or use a comb. Neither has any business running for president.

  • James F.
    12/31/2019 18:00

    Idiots!!!!

  • Belford J.
    12/31/2019 17:54

    There polices are completely redundant! !!

  • Dennis B.
    12/31/2019 07:38

    like two old frogs in a small pond the old one going to croak an the other one is going to lie about her relationship to prince charming !!!!

  • Chris G.
    12/30/2019 20:02

    Send them to a socialist country and then have them report how great it was....when freedom is stripped and the gov't controls the people!

  • Michael H.
    12/30/2019 12:17

    America first! No more Democrat's in office ever again!

  • Robert F.
    12/30/2019 03:54

    And how many in Congress have become multi-millionaire while in Congress???

  • Ron K.
    12/29/2019 21:33

    Trump 2020

  • Tim Y.
    12/29/2019 20:44

    Sanders and Warren are both idiots. I can’t see a difference.

  • Brian B.
    12/28/2019 17:18

    After Obama care how can we trust any of these politicians with any say so in health care. The people that had health insurance before cant afford it now. Instead of figuring out who pays what maybe they should make medical bills affordable the insurance affordable.

  • Curtis H.
    12/28/2019 07:06

    Trump 2020...

  • Brandon S.
    12/28/2019 05:47

    Remember who pays these tards to ride around the country fly on private jets and go to dinners.

  • Chuck H.
    12/28/2019 01:58

    There’s perfect four letter word to describe Elizabeth Warren !!!

  • Kerry M.
    12/27/2019 23:31

    They both suck

  • Joe C.
    12/27/2019 19:44

    Princess Fullashita from the where the fuqouie tribe.

  • Jack S.
    12/27/2019 04:29

    Both are a joke but if you have seen any of the interviews they have given you know that only one or two lines of what they have said was used in this post to state what they will do. This post is meant for people who do not watch many of their interviews or saw the Democratic debates. Basically they are hoping to persuade the naive

  • Donna M.
    12/27/2019 02:33

    Communism is all they are preaching Democrats wake up.