Sanders: US has lowest voter turnout of any major country
US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says the sad reality in American society is that “poor people don’t vote” and that’s the reason he has lost the primary elections in 17 states with high income inequality.
Sanders also decried the low voter turnout in US elections during an interview filmed Saturday in Baltimore and aired Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Hillary Clinton has won the primaries in 17 out of the 25 states with the highest income inequality, "Meet the Press" moderator Chuck Todd told the Vermont senator.
“Because poor people don’t vote,” sanders replied. “I mean, that’s just a fact; that’s a sad reality of American society and that’s what we have to transform.”
“We have one – as you know – one of the lowest voter turnouts of any major country on Earth,” Sanders stated. “In America today – in the last election in 2014, 80 percent of poor people did not vote.”
Sanders has based his campaign on a promise to lessen the vast wealth and income inequality in the US, and he has received support from a record number of grassroots donors whose small contributions have consistently added up to monthly fundraising totals that dwarf those of Clinton.
“If we can significantly increase voter turnout so that low-income people and working people and young people participated in the political process, if we got a voter turnout of 75 percent, this country would be radically transformed,” Sanders said.
During the same interview, Sanders also complained that the Democratic Party establishment has not been fair to him and has favored Clinton.
While acknowledging that his path to victory is "narrow," Sanders said he could do "very well in California," pointing to recent poll showing him down in the state by just two percentage points.
He also pointed to polls showing him faring better than Clinton against Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump in a hypothetical general-election contest.
Sanders suggested that he would not necessarily push his supporters to back Clinton if he is not the Democratic nominee.
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