Sanders to Trump supporters: Back me
US Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders has called on Donald Trump’s supporters to stop backing the GOP front-runner and endorse his campaign instead.
The Vermont senator told CBS on Sunday that he shares the same worries as Trump’s supporters and unlike the billionaire businessman, he actually has a plan to address them.
“Look, many of Trump’s supporters are working-class people, and they are angry,” Sanders said. “And they are angry because they are working longer hours for lower wages. They are angry because their jobs have left this country and gone to China or other low-wage countries.”
“And what I am suggesting is that what Trump has done with some success has taken that anger, taken those fears, which are legitimate, and converted them into anger against Mexicans, anger against Muslims,” he added.
“And in my view, that is not the way we are going to address the major problems facing our country,” Sanders said.
He said Trump would exacerbate problems by offering generous tax breaks to the wealthy and demonizing minorities.
“In fact, he has said that he thinks wages in America are too high,” Sanders said of the Republican front-runner. “But he does want to give hundreds of billions in tax breaks to the top three-tenths of 1 percent.”
“So I think for his working-class supporters, I think we can make the case that if we really want to address the issues that people are concerned about… that we need policies that bring us together… and create a middle class that works for all of us, rather than an economy that works for just a few,” he argued.
Sanders has been on a rampage against Trump recently and has accused him of creating divisions by scaring the middle class.
"We must bring people together to take on the powerful who have hurt the middle class. Trump is trying to play on fears and divide us up," he said on Twitter.
According to a new Quinnipiac poll, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sanders will easily beat Trump in potential match-ups.
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