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Bernie Sanders: “We took on the Democratic establishment. We came close to…”

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

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Bernie Sanders Interview Lex Fridman Podcast #450

Published | Video Starts at 00:57

You have no power. Give up. They don't say it quite that way, but that's really what the intent is. And what we showed is, guess what? Running an outsider campaign, We took on the Democratic establishment. We came close to winning it, and we did win 23 states. And the ideas that we're talking about are the ideas that working class people, young people, believe in. Yeah, you showed that it's possible to win. (00:57–56:56)

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Asserts that Bernie Sanders' campaign won 23 states in a past election.

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