Wilmington (United States) (AFP) – US President-elect Joe Biden said Friday that he had been considering nominating Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders as his labor secretary but eventually decided not to do so because it could have put the fragile Democratic Senate majority at risk. “I did give serious consideration of nominating my friend Bernie Sanders to this position,” Biden told reporters in Wilmington, Delaware, as he announced key nominees for his economic team. “I’m confident he could have done a fantastic job,” Biden said of Sanders, who represents the left wing of the party and challeng…
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