Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) appeared on “The Colbert Report” Monday night and seemed to be overly confident about his success in the midterms and his potential presidential run in 2016.
Rather than seeing the 2014 midterm elections — in which the Republicans gained their largest majority in the House and took the Senate — as a win for the GOP, he saw it as an indictment of the two-party system.
“I will tell you, Stephen [Colbert], what I think really happened is about 64 percent of the American people rejected the two-party system,” Sanders said. “They rejected Washington as it now functions. They rejected a political system and a Congress which spends more time representing the wealthy and the powerful than ordinary Americans.”
He based this on the low turnout, although low turnout has come to be expected in non-presidential years.
Colbert also tried to get the self-described Socialist to make his announcement on a presidential run in 2016 during the show. While he wouldn’t actually admit to it, Sanders said he was looking into it and seemed to be loving the support he got from the liberal Colbert audience.
If he did become president by some small chance, he would like to model America more after Denmark. Colbert pointed out that Denmark has less citizens than he has Twitter followers, but Sanders said it could still be a better role model than our current system.
Watch the interview below:
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