Biden, Sanders Highlight Familiar Split In Democratic Party
The former vice president is calling for unity and compromise, a restoration, of sort, of what Democrats view as normalcy. For Bernie Sanders and his supporters, that's hardly enough.
Updated at 11:35 a.m. ET
Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden are very much on each other's minds.
At his campaign rally in Philadelphia on Saturday, the former vice president went off script — twice — to deride a protester with a whistle.
"That must be Bernie or somebody," Biden apparently said, raising eyebrows and drawing laughs.
(The line is at 8:21 into this video. You can decide for yourself what he said.)
Minutes later, with Biden talking about unity and governing amid more background whistling, he used the whistler as a punchline.
"You know, there's serious work that has to be done," Biden said, "but it's not being done by a president who
