‘I’m voting for Bernie’: Hugh Hewitt will back Sanders in Democratic primary

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Conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt announced that he planned to back Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Virginia Democratic primary because “he’s authentic.”

“Because Virginia allows early voting and because I don’t know where NBC or Salem will have me on March 3, I’m voting this week, and because it’s Virginia, I get to vote in the Democratic primary,” Hewitt explained Sunday on Meet the Press. “I’m voting for Bernie Sanders. And I think a lot of people will because he’s authentic.”

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