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Bernie Sanders Says Sympathetic Things About Donald Trump Supporters

He also rips the man they love.
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So that was a bit of a surprise.

During an appearance on “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” former presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders had some sympathetic words for Donald Trump’s supporters.

Avoiding the “deplorables” label controversially pasted on them by former Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, Sanders said, “The vast majority of people who support Trump are people who are hurting and they’re angry and they’re looking for answers. I think Trump is the wrong answer.”

Sanders conceded that voters have problems with both Trump and Clinton as candidates, but reminded them to focus on the issues and Clinton’s ability to solve them.

And, of course, he got in a dig or two at the Donald.

“It’s pathetic and it’s laughable,” Sanders said. “Here is a guy who has exploited people throughout much of his business career. Here is a guy who claims how concerned he is about American companies going abroad to manufacture products — a very legitimate concern — and yet, his own clothing manufacturing is done in other countries around the world where the poor workers are being exploited.”

 

h/t Uproxx

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Before You Go

Bernie Sanders' Most Interesting Quotes
On Youth Unemployment(01 of15)
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"We got to put young people to work, we got to give them an education, rather than putting them in jail," Sanders said in an interview on MSNBC's "The Ed Show."

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On The Middle Class(02 of15)
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"Ordinary people are profoundly disgusted with the fact that the middle class is being destroyed and income going to the top 1 percent," Sanders tweeted. (credit:Justin Sullivan via Getty Images)
On Gun Control(03 of15)
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"Folks who do not like guns [are] fine. But we have millions of people who are gun owners in this country -- 99.9 percent of those people obey the law. I want to see real, serious debate and action on guns, but it is not going to take place if we simply have extreme positions on both sides. I think I can bring us to the middle," Sanders said in a CNN interview.

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On Free Tuition(04 of15)
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"It is insane and counter-productive to the best interests of our country, that hundreds of thousands of bright young people cannot afford to go to college, and that millions of others leave school with a mountain of debt that burdens them for decades. That must end," Sanders said during his campaign announcement.

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On Wanting Top Marginal Tax Rate Over 50 Percent(05 of15)
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"In the last 30 years there has been a massive -- we’re talking about many trillions of dollars being redistributed from the middle class to the top one-tenth of 1 percent. It is time to redistribute money back to the working families of this country from the top one-tenth of 1 percent," Sanders said on PBS's "Charlie Rose."

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On Marijuana(06 of15)
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“I coughed a lot, I don’t know. I smoked marijuana twice -- didn’t quite work for me,” Sanders told Yahoo.

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On Universal Health Care(07 of15)
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"So I do believe that we have to move toward a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system. I think it's not going to happen tomorrow, but that certainly should be the goal," Sanders said on ABC’s "This Week."

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On Police Reform(08 of15)
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"We’ve got to demilitarize the police -- we don’t need tanks, you don’t need heavy military equipment in the communities of the United States. We gotta pay attention to the African-American communities, to poverty so these kids get the education and job training they need," Sanders told Yahoo.

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On His American Citizenship(09 of15)
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"Well, no, I do not have dual citizenship with Israel. I'm an American. I don't know where that question came from. I am an American citizen, and I have visited Israel on a couple of occasions. No, I'm an American citizen, period,” Sanders said in an interview with a D.C. NPR affiliate. (credit:Tom Williams via Getty Images)
On Health Care And Education(10 of15)
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"Please don't tell me that the United States of America, our great country, cannot guarantee health care to all people. Don't tell me that every person in this country should not be able to get all the education that they need regardless of their income," Sanders said in Portland, Maine.

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On Campaign Finance Reform(11 of15)
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"A major problem of our campaign finance system is that anybody can start a super PAC on behalf of anybody and can say anything. And this is what makes our current campaign finance situation totally absurd," Sanders said to the Burlington Free Press.

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On Undocumented Immigrants(12 of15)
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"Despite the central role that undocumented workers play in our economy and in our daily lives, these workers are too often reviled by many for political gain and shunted into the shadows," Sanders said at the National Association of Latino Elected Officials conference.

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On Bank Bailouts(13 of15)
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"If a bank is too big to fail, that bank is too big to exist," Sanders said in Denver, Colorado.

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On Raising The Minimum Wage(14 of15)
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"Our goal as a nation is that if somebody works 40 hours a week, that person will not be living in poverty," Sanders said in Iowa.

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On The War On Drugs(15 of15)
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"What I can tell you is this: We have far, far, far too many people in jail for nonviolent crimes, and I think in many ways, the war against drugs has not been successful, and I think we've got to rethink that," Sanders told Yahoo News' Katie Couric. (credit:MICHAEL B. THOMAS via Getty Images)
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