[Iran Press TV] US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders
...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords...
says the sad reality in American society is that "poor people don’t vote" and that’s the reason he has lost the primary elections in 17 states with high income inequality.
Sanders also decried the low voter turnout in US elections during an interview filmed Saturday in Baltimore and aired Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Dean Rusk ...
has won the primaries in 17 out of the 25 states with the highest income inequality, "Meet the Press" moderator Chuck Todd told the Vermont senator.
"Because poor people don’t vote," sanders replied. "I mean, that’s just a fact; that’s a sad reality of American society and that’s what we have to transform."
...poor people, young people, busy people who trust that it doesn't matter all that much who thinks they're running the country... That's so everywhere voting isn't mandatory. | "We have one ‐ as you know ‐ one of the lowest voter turnouts of any major country on Earth," Sanders stated. "In America today ‐ in the last election in 2014, 80 percent of poor people did not vote."
The way he said that makes it sound like that's another "fact" the honourable senator invented out of thin air. | Sanders has based his campaign on a promise to lessen the vast wealth and income inequality in the US, and he has received support from a record number of grassroots donors whose small contributions have consistently added up to monthly fundraising totals that dwarf those of Clinton.
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