While Donald Trump approvingly cites Bernie Sanders on the stump, Sanders used a trip to New Jersey to rip the Republican’s business failures.
“What we’re seeing in Atlantic City, N.J., encapsulates the ugliness and the greed were seeing all over the country,” Sanders told supporters at a rally on the boardwalk against the backdrop of Trump Plaza on Monday morning.
“That greed and the recklessness we have seen from people like Donald Trump,” Sanders continued as the crowd began to boo loudly. “Oh, you know Donald Trump? I get it. You don’t think he is a brilliant successful businessman who can bring the kind of prosperity to America that he brought here to Atlantic City?”
Sanders spoke at a venue next to Trump Plaza, one of the presumptive GOP nominee’s failed business projects in the Garden State. In New Jersey, and especially in Atlantic City, Sanders gains support from union workers and minimum wage workers who have lost their jobs due to the financial crisis.
While Sanders continues to campaign in the nine remaining primary states, he is hundreds of pledged delegates behind his opponent Hillary Clinton and the former secretary of state will almost certainly win the party’s nomination at the convention this July in Philadelphia.
Since Trump cleared the GOP field last week he has made efforts to appeal to these disgruntled Sanders supporters, in the hopes that they will vote for him rather than Clinton in the general election. The business mogul has repeatedly tweeted that the Democratic Party treats Sanders unfairly and he also has begun to shift some of his economic plans to possibly appeal to the Vermont senator’s voters.
“If we can win here in New Jersey and win in California and win in some of the other states we are going to go into go into Philadelphia and the Democratic convention and go out with the Democratic nomination,” Sanders told voters. “Don’t let anyone tell you this campaign is over we are going to go out fighting with every last vote.”
