Associated Press
Sen. Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare for All” proposal got cheers on Monday night at a Fox News town hall, giving the hosts a surprise as the appearance prompted a response from President Donald Trump.
During an event held in Bethlehem, Pa., moderator Bret Baier asked the crowd how many got their insurance from their employers, then followed up by asking “how many are willing to transition to what the senator says, a government-run system?”
That question prompted applause from the audience, which Baier said was politically diverse.
Bret Baier just polled the Bernie Town Hall audience who would be willing to switch to #MedicareForAll. It backfired spectacularly. pic.twitter.com/dQJ9gfQ137
— jordan (@JordanUhl) April 15, 2019
The town hall held in a county that voted for Trump reverberated both on Sanders’ own Twitter feed and the president’s, as the Vermont senator retweeted a post that said the Medicare for All question “backfired spectacularly on Fox News” and Trump tweeted about Sanders for the first time since Feb. 20.
So weird to watch Crazy Bernie on @FoxNews. Not surprisingly, @BretBaier and the “audience” was so smiley and nice. Very strange, and now we have @donnabrazile?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 16, 2019
Sanders, who is second only to former Vice President Joe Biden in the RealClearPolitics average of Democratic presidential polls, has raked in more cash than his fellow Democratic contenders and rolled out his health-care plan on April 10. He says he’d fund Medicare for All through taxes on both the employee and employer sides as well as policies like imposing a marginal tax rate of up to 70% on those making more than $10 million.
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