Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders celebrated his best day of the primary fight Saturday by going right back on message and on attack against Hillary Clinton.
The Vermont senator faulted Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, for her continued use of “big money people” to fund her campaign.
“It is obscene that Secretary Clinton keeps going to big money people to fund her campaign,” the Vermont senator said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday morning, referencing an April 15 fundraiser for Clinton in San Francisco, for which donors had to raise and donate $353,400 to dine with her and George Clooney.
“But it’s not only this Clooney event, it is that she’s raised well over $15 million from Wall Street for her super PAC and millions more from the fossil fuels industry and form the drug companies,” he added. “What we are trying to do [is] to run a campaign, to paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, ‘of the people, by the people and for the people.’ Not just reaching out to the wealthiest people in this country.”
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Sanders added that this type of campaigning is “a cancer on American politics,” and called for the overturning of Citizens United.
“I believe that we should move to public funding of elections,” Sanders said.
“This is the problem with Americans politics, is that big money is dominating our political system,” Sanders told host Jake Tapper. “And we are trying to move as far away from that as possible.”
Sanders, in wins that narrowed his large delegate deficit , won Hawaii, Alaska and Washington on Saturday. As of early Sunday morning, Clinton has 1,712 delegates to Sanders’ 1,004.
