Amid signs of his strength in Wisconsin and New Hampshire, Bernie Sanders is looking pretty confident.
During an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that aired on This Week Sunday, the Independent Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate declared that he believes he will win the race for the White House in 2016.
“We are going to win New Hampshire, we’re going to win Iowa and I think we’re going to win the Democratic nomination, and I think we’re going to win the presidency,” Sanders affirmed. “And I’ll tell you why: The American people are sick and tired of seeing the disappearance of the great middle class of this country.”
“They’re sick and tired of working longer hours for low wages while at the same time 99 percent of all new income generated is going to the top 1 percent and the top one-tenth-of-one-percent now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent,” he continued.
While Sanders still has a ways to go to catch up with foe Hillary Clinton in the national polls, he has emerged formidable against the former secretary of state among liberal voters in states like Wisconsin and New Hampshire.
If elected, the proud socialist would be the oldest president to win the White House at the age of 75 on Election Day. But Sanders isn’t too worried about that number, thanks to his blessings of “endurance” and “health.”
“Thank God I — I am blessed with — with very good health,” Sanders explained. “I don’t think I’ve taken a day off because of sickness in several years.”
“So I believe as somebody who has — when he was a kid, a long distance runner, I’m blessed with endurance, I’m blessed with health, and we are going to do everything that we can, A, to win this campaign, and, B, be as good a president as I possibly can be,” Sanders added.
