Bernie Sanders: “In the last presidential election, you have the wealthiest…”

“Because the truth of the matter is it will be very difficult to do anything significant to improve life for working families unless we get big money and billionaire money out of the political process. It is totally insane, totally unacceptable that In the last presidential election, you have the wealthiest guy in the world, Mr. Musk, putting $270 million into electing Donald Trump as president. But it's not just Republicans. You got Democratic billionaires putting in huge amounts of money into the Democratic Party, helping to determine who that party's candidates will be.” (00:48–00:58)

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