Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday said Hillary Clinton can win over his voters, but that she must “be bolder.”
Asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” whether he thinks Clinton can win given that half of his backers don’t intend to support her, Sanders stressed that his supporters will come around if she “does the right thing.”
“It is Hillary Clinton standing up and saying you know what, these are the things we need to do. And if she does the right thing, I am absolutely confident that the vast majority of my supporters will vote for her. That is the process we are engaged in right now,” Sanders said.
Sanders said the U.S. campaign for president is about fixing the same issues for the middle class that led to the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union last week.
“I think there is massive resentment throughout Europe and the U.K. and in the United States about a global economy which works very well for large international corporations,” Sanders said. “But it’s a global economy that is not working in many ways for the middle class of working families in this country.”
Sanders, who has campaigned for president on the platform of ending wealth inequality and helping the middle class, said that most people just want an economy that works for everyone, not just wealthy billionaires.
“What this whole campaign is about is transforming the United States [and] dealing with the issues that led to Brexit,” he said.
Despite Hillary Clinton securing enough delegates to become the Democratic presumptive nominee, Sanders is still in the race, saying that he intends to influence the party’s platform as much as possible, including raising issues on the floor of the Democratic National Convention if needed.
Some of the biggest issues he plans to advocate for include ending fracking, boosting the minimum wage to $15 an hour and implementing a single-payer healthcare system.
