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By Mark Gruenberg
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa—In his strongest language yet, Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vt., castigated GOP President Donald Trump for racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, exporting his own firm’s jobs, and even for hypocrisy about undocumented people.
Sanders’s blast came in his closing statement before an overflow crowd of 700-plus Teamsters and family members at a Dec. 7 union presidential forum in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The 3-hours-plus evening session attracted five other contenders: Sens. Amy Klobuchar, DFL-Minn., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, financier Tom Steyer and former Vice President Joseph Biden.
All, plus other hopefuls who did not attend, are vying for votes in Iowa’s first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses on Feb. 3 – the first chance any voters will have to, literally, stand up and be counted about whom they prefer.
The five others also criticized Trump, but not in such strong language and often not by name. Booker was the notable exception, saying that if he wins the White House, he would spend his time uniting the country, not dividing it as Trump has.
Sanders wasn’t so gentle....
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