民主党总统候选人乔·拜登说，如果他当选，他将成为“历史上最进步的总统”，并指责佛蒙特州参议员伯尼·桑德斯在其漫长的政治生涯中“一事无成”。

在全国广播公司的讲话中会见新闻界周日，前副总统反驳主持人查克·托德说桑德斯最大的优势是他的真实性，每个人都“知道他的立场”拜登说，这位长期参议员几十年来一直在推动“全民医保”和其他医疗改革，但在立法方面没有取得任何成就。

拜登还批评桑德斯没有否认支持者据说受到威胁在该联盟领导人表示桑德斯任主席将结束烹饪保健后，烹饪联盟官员表示。桑德斯以质疑他们是否真的是他的“支持者”作为回应，并表示这些攻击是“不可接受的”——但拜登表示，他必须采取更多措施，在自己的队伍中呼吁厌恶女性的支持者。

“他从来没有做过任何事情。听着，我不是——他是个正派的人。但35年来，他一直在谈论医疗保健，“全民医保”，全民医保。什么也没发生，”拜登说。“我帮助通过了奥巴马医改。我帮助推动了它，我得到了选票。我现在的处境是，我拿走了一些东西，我向你保证，我会完成的。”

拜登说，桑德斯和马萨诸塞州参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦的医疗保健计划都要求下一次初选将在内华达州举行的人们放弃“所有私人保险”他说桑德斯和沃伦都不能告诉美国人谁能为他们的全面提案买单。“我是说，拜托，人们已经厌倦了缺乏直爽。我真的认为你必须说出你为什么要做你正在做的事情，以及你将如何完成它。”

“我的想法既大又大胆。这种观点认为我不是进步的——如果我当选美国总统，我对医疗保健的立场，对全球变暖的立场，以及对外交政策的立场...这将成为美国历史上最进步的政府之一。”

拜登说，他反对桑德斯和沃伦提出的30到40万亿美元的“异想天开”的医疗保险计划，他说这些计划永远不会实现。“当总统的一部分不仅仅是你的想法，而是你能完成它吗？”

他把注意力转向了最近对强大的内华达烹饪联盟的攻击，据报道这些攻击来自桑德斯竞选的支持者。“他可能不对此负责，但他有一定的责任。

“你很了解我，知道如果我的任何支持者那样做，我会和他们断绝关系。干脆和他们断绝关系。网上说的那些话，他们威胁这两个烹饪工会领导人的方式，太不像话了，上网吧。他们说的话，他们说的恶毒、恶毒的厌恶女人的话，他们发出的威胁，”拜登继续说道。

“说我不交往是一回事。但我会找出他们到底是谁，如果他们中有人为我工作，解雇他们，找出答案。看看发生了什么...我告诉你，到目前为止，我认为仅仅说“我与自己无关”是不够的"

2020年2月7日，在新罕布什尔州曼彻斯特的圣安塞尔姆学院，民主党总统候选人、前副总统乔·拜登和参议员伯尼·桑德斯在沙利文竞技场参加民主党总统初选辩论。

JOE BIDEN SAYS HE'D BE THE 'MOST PROGRESSIVE' PRESIDENT IN HISTORY, TELLS BERNIE SANDERS TO 'DISOWN' MISOGYNISTIC SUPPORTERS

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said if he is elected he'd be the "most progressive president in history" and accused Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders of having "never gotten anything done" in his lengthy political career.

Speaking on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday, the former vice president pushed back against host Chuck Todd for saying Sanders' biggest strength is his authenticity and that everyone "knows where he stands." Biden said the longtime senator has been promoting 'Medicare for all' and other health care reforms for decades but has accomplished nothing legislatively.

Biden also criticized Sanders for not disowning supporters who reportedly threatened Culinary Union officials after the union's leaders said a Sanders presidency would end Culinary health care. Sanders responded by questioning if they were truly his "supporters" and said the attacks were "not acceptable" -- but Biden said he must do more to call out misogynistic backers in his ranks.

"He's never gotten anything done. Look I'm not-he's a decent guy. But he's been talking about health care, 'Medicare for all,' universal health care, for 35 years. Nothing's happened," Biden said. "I helped pass Obamacare. I helped move it forward, I got the votes. I'm in a position where I take something and I promise you it will get done."

Biden said both Sanders and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren's health care plans would require people in Nevada, where the next primary will take place, to give up "all private insurance." He said neither Sanders nor Warren can tell Americans "who can pay for" their sweeping proposals. "I mean come on, people are so tired of the lack of straightforwardness. I really believe you have to lay out why you're doing what you're doing and how you're going to get it done."

"The ideas that I have are big and bold. This idea that I'm not progressive -- if I get elected as president of the United States, with my position on health care and my position on global warming and my position on foreign policy ... this will go down as one of the most progressive administrations in American history."

Biden said he's up against "fanciful" $30 to $40 trillion Medicare for all proposals from Sanders and Warren which he said will never work out. "Part of being president is not just the idea you have, but can you get it done?"

He turned his attention toward recent attacks against the powerful Nevada Culinary Union, which were reportedly from supporters of the Sanders campaign. "He may not be responsible for it, but he has some accountability.

"You know me well enough to know if any of my supporters did that, I'd disown them. Flat disown them. The stuff that was said online, the way they threatened these two women who are leaders in that culinary union, it is outrageous, Just go online. The things they said, the vicious, malicious misogynistic things they said, the threats they put out," Biden continued.

"To say I'd disassociate is one thing. But I'd find out who the hell they are, if any of them worked for me, fire them, find out. See what's going on...I tell you what, so far I don't think it's sufficient just to say 'I disassociate myself.'"

​Democratic presidential candidates former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) participate in the Democratic presidential primary debate in the Sullivan Arena at St. Anselm College on February 7, 2020 in Manchester, New Hampshire.