White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said Tuesday that Democratic voters may be “racist and sexist” because the front-runners for the 2020 Democratic nomination are white men.
“What is the problem with the Democratic primary electorate, are they racist and sexist?” Conway told reporters on the White House driveway. “Do they not want all these women who are running, all these people of color? Because apparently you’ve got the two old white straight men career politicians in the lead.”
Conway, Trump’s final 2016 campaign manager, spoke a day after former Vice President Joe Biden entered the Democratic field as the front-runner, trailed in second place by socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
The sharp-tongued Trump surrogate blasted both Biden and Sanders, while saying they are “not necessarily” Trump’s biggest political threats.
[Related: Women of color frustrated with white males in Democratic primary]
Conway accused Biden of lying by saying he had asked former President Barack Obama not to endorse him and said Sanders’s ideas may not be “part of a democracy.”
“I know [Biden] said that, ‘I asked President Obama not to endorse me, I am too busy getting the endorsement of the firefighters’ … Do any of you believe that? You let him get away with his first lie. Why did you do that?”
Conway suggested asking Biden why some Americans do not have health insurance “nine years after Obama-Biden-care passed.”
“I think Bernie Sanders doesn’t care what his party thinks, is connecting directly with people, and is raising money in small amounts, and goes out and has very specific points of view, which is why he’s got a following,” Conway added. “He’s a lot like Donald Trump, except for good ideas, and ideas that are mainstream, and ideas that are part of a democracy and not socialism.”
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