EXETER, N.H. – A simmering feud between 2020 rivals Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and former Vice President Joe Biden over Sanders' accusations that Biden had long-advocated cutting Social Security broke out into a verbal fistfight on Saturday, as Biden called a Sanders' campaign video “a lie” and “a doctored tape” while the Sanders campaign accusing Biden of “trying to doctor his own public record.”Sanders has repeatedly argued this election cycle that Biden, during his years as a senator from Delaware and later as vice president for two terms under President Barack Obama, had pushed to weaken Social Security. That video was deceptively edited to appear to show Biden agreeing with Ryan. Biden told an audience that “Bernie’s people” had circulated a video that falsely suggested that in 2018 he agreed with then-House Speaker Paul Ryan’s push to dismantle Social Secuirty benefits. The campaign told Seacoast Online that the organizers of the event had invited the senator -- but not everybody appeared happy with his appearance. And the clash brings gender back into the spotlight and opens up Sanders to allegations of sexism.

Source: Fox News January 19, 2020 01:40 UTC