Speaking at a forum sponsored by the American Association of Retired Persons in Iowa earlier this month, Joe Biden fearmongered about Medicare for All. “Medicare goes away as you know it,” said Biden. Under Bernie Sanders’s plan, “All the Medicare you have is gone.”

Biden sounded exactly like Donald Trump, who wrote in an op-ed last year that “Medicare for All would really be Medicare for None.”

This is a smart play if you’re in the pocket of the drug and insurance companies and hell-bent on defeating Medicare for All. Seniors vote, and they’re protective of Medicare. What better way to turn them against the nation’s leading proponent of single-payer health care than by convincing them that Medicare for All actually erodes their benefits?