Former Rep. Dennis Kucinich told Newsmax on Friday that Democratic Party leaders have not taken “a strong stand for peace,” noting the lack of pushback Democrats have given to the massive Department of  Defense spending of the last decades.

“The big problem, as far as I’m concerned, with the Democratic Party, aside from the fact that they may have misrepresented the health position of the [former] president [Joe Biden] is — What do they stand for? Why haven’t the Democratic Party — why haven’t they take a strong stand for peace?” Kucinich said on “The Record With Greta Van Susteren.”

Kucinich, who ran for president as a Democrat in 2008, chided his former party for not being tough on budget negotiations and pushing back against the military-industrial complex.

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