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Bernie Sanders: “I got 15 Democrats to support me. I got zero Republicans.”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Absolutely. Children are starving. Absolutely. Malnutrition growing and all that stuff. All right. I introduced legislation to say we're going to block the sale of certain military weaponry to Israel. I got 15 Democrats to support me. I got zero Republicans. Why do you think more Democrats didn't support me? Because the Democrats support me. They will have to take on aipec. You mentioned Jamal Bowman. Yeah, well, that's what you're talking about. (26:47–26:52)

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Asserts that 15 Democrats supported his legislation, while no Republicans did.

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