Bernie Sanders: “I suspect many of them actually voted for the first black…”

“Some of the Democrat pundits say, well, you know, the problem is all of these Trump people are racist and they're sexist and they're homophobes. Well, no doubt that some of them are. And that's true. Most of them are not. And I suspect many of them actually voted for the first black president in American history, Barack Obama. All right. But they are in large numbers working class people, and we have got to speak to them in an economic perspective that is clear and straightforward.” (14:40–14:46)

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