Biden says 'moral and centered' Sanders supporters will vote for Clinton


Vice President Joe Biden suggested Tuesday night that it would be immoral for fans of Bernie Sanders to vote for anyone other than Hillary Clinton.
"What do you say when one of the Bernie delegates comes to you and says, 'Listen, I'm just not going for Hillary; I'm standing by my principles'?" asked ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos. "I say — I look at you and I say — 'I know you're gonna vote for Hillary,'" Biden answered. "'I just know. Because if you're as moral and centered as you say you are, I know you can't vote for Trump. I know.'"
Though Biden cast the 2016 election as a two-horse race, third party candidates Jill Stein (of the Green Party) and Gary Johnson (of the Libertarian Party) are both making a bid for disaffected Sanders voters. Stein is actively campaigning outside the Democratic National Convention in Philly, and a June poll found about two in 10 Bernie fans said they'd vote for Johnson if their candidate lost the nomination.
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.
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