Colbert: Elections show socialism ‘turns people off’

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Late-night host Stephen Colbert said Tuesday that the primary elections so far seem to show that U.S. voters are mostly turned off by socialist candidates, as most of them are losing.

“Why do you need to call yourself ‘socialist’?” he asked Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on his show. “Because that’s freighted with so much negativity in the United States.”

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