NEW: Biden campaign says he's adopting a version of Sanders' free college idea. Biden had already backed free community college. Now he adds free public college and univ for families under $125k.
NOTE that this is the plan that came out of Clinton-Sanders negotiations at the end of the 2016 primary and for which Sanders praised Clinton. Yep, I wrote about that too: bloom.bg/3aYwsvu
Add to this Biden's recent adoption of Warren's bankruptcy plan, which would allow student debt to be discharged in bankruptcy, and you see the contours of Biden's outreach to his opponents' supporters forming. Will he inch toward Sanders and Warren on climate? Health care?
A Biden campaign official says his team and Warren’s team had discussed Biden’s adoption of her bankruptcy plan and were aware of the announcement. No such conversations with Sanders’ team around Biden’s new free college position. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Sanders’ response:
"It's great that Joe Biden is now supporting a position that was in the Democratic platform four years ago. Now we have to go much further. We need to make all public universities, colleges and trade schools tuition-free for everyone like our high schools are”
"It's great that Joe Biden is now supporting a position that was in the Democratic platform four years ago. Now we have to go much further. We need to make all public universities, colleges and trade schools tuition-free for everyone like our high schools are”
“We need to cancel all student debt. And we can fund it with a small tax on Wall Street speculation."
