Sanders talks up ‘class warfare’ to union audience

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Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont dished up political comfort foods to members of an Iowa labor organization, expressing solidarity with the working class in its ongoing “class warfare” against big moneyed interests.

“For 45 years, there has been a war in this country waged by the corporate elite against the working class of America,” the 2020 Democrat, a socialist, told a raptured audience at the annual Iowa Federation of Labor conference on Wednesday. “If there’s going to be class warfare in this country, it’s about time the working class won that war — not just the corporate elite.”

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