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Sanders Campaign Rocked Again: More Staff Caught Advocating Violence Against Opponents

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PERRY, IOWA - JANUARY 26: Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) holds a campaign event at La Poste January 26, 2020 in Perry, Iowa. A New York Times/Siena College poll conducted January 20-23 places Sanders at the top of a long list of Democrats seeking the presidential nomination with 25-percent of likely Iowa caucus-goers naming him as their first choice. Candidates former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) are polling at 18, 17 and 15-percent, respectively.
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2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) campaign was rocked again on Tuesday after James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas released more undercover footage exposing paid Sanders campaign staffers appearing to advocate for violence against political opponents.

The new video from Project Veritas allegedly shows Sanders campaign South Carolina field organizers Mason Baird and Daniel Taylor advocating for “extreme action” and “militancy” against political opponents and private property.

Project Veritas provided the following highlights of things that Baird said:

  • “I’ve canvassed with someone who’s an anarchist, and with someone who’s a Marxist-Leninist. So, we attract radical, truly radical people in the campaign … obviously that’s not outward-facing.”
  • “A lot of those people who do that kind of work, are … their politics fall well outside of the American sort of norm. So, they’re Marxist-Leninist, they’re anarchists, they’re these types of folks, and um, and they have more of a mind for direct action, for engaging in politics outside of the electoral system.”
  • “A lot of the stories we’re told in the United States about, you know, the gulags and the persecution of the Kulaks and things like that are exaggerated … we certainly don’t have, uh, a straight perspective on that stuff here in America.”
  • “We would need a federal government and a labor movement that is working together to strip power away from capitalists and preferably directing that violence towards property.”
  • “It would, it’s gonna take, you know, it’s gonna take militancy … like a militant labor movement that’s willing to … strike, and if necessary, you know, just destroy property and things like that.”
  • “… after we abolish landlords, we don’t have to kill them …”
  • “… once we break up Google, YouTube, Facebook,  nationalize these things, then that would be a huge thing forward so far as education stuff goes.”

Project Veritas provided the the following highlights of things that Taylor said:

  • “For me personally, I have no problem going all in on the campaign stuff because you’re planting a seed … yeah, the whole socialist thing four years ago was a whole lot more toxic than it is today …”
  • “We don’t want to scare people off, you first have to feel it out before you get into the crazy stuff … You know we were talking about more extreme organizations like Antifa, you were talking about, Yellow Vests, all that but we’re kinda keeping that on the back-burner for now.”
  • “We have all this momentum, where do we go, regardless of the outcome, after it’s all over? Change won’t come easily, regardless. Even if Bernie is elected, change will not come swiftly or easily, so the connections we make now in the campaign with people, and volunteers, it’s important we retain that regardless of the outcome. It’s unfortunate that we have to make plans for extreme action but like I said, they’re not going to give it to us even if Bernie is elected.”

The new release from Project Veritas comes after the group released undercover videos involving a paid Sanders campaign staffer in Iowa and in South Carolina in recent weeks that showed the staffers allegedly advocating for violence against political opponents. The Sanders campaign has largely ignored media requests on the matter and even called the police on journalists who pressed for a response from the campaign on the videos.

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