It's hard to see how Sen. Bernie Sanders will become much more than an "insurgent candidate" unless he attacks Joe Biden head-on about Ukraine and other issues, and that probably won't happen, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Thursday.
"It's going to be interesting to see how Sanders takes on Biden," said Gingrich. "There's a sort of general agreement with the Democratic Party that you're not allowed to talk about Hunter Biden, you're not allowed to talk about money from the Ukraine or money from China," Gingrich said on Fox News' "Fox and Friends."
Biden has been protected "both by the elite news media and his fellow candidates," Gingrich added, so it will be "interesting to see whether Sanders goes down that road."
Meanwhile, Biden will be faced with a clear choice in a few months if he keeps building momentum about whether to reach to the left to try to bring Sanders and his supporters to his side.
"Or, does he play the role that Bill Clinton played in 1992 and take Bernie on head-on and say 'look, you know I'm a centrist. I'm not a left-wing crazy and I think the country is going to prefer me to Trump,'" Gingrich said.
However, Biden has always been "a weak candidate," said Gingrich. "He had to drop out twice before running for president. What does it tell you that as weak as he is that the others were weaker? I mean, this was a collection of like the movie 'Dumb and Dumber.' This was 'Weak and 'Weaker."
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