Bernie Sanders claim that one of the reasons why he is losing to Hillary Clinton in Democratic primaries is that "poor people don't vote."
During NBC's "Meet the Press," Sanders was asked as to why Clinton has been the choice in 16 out of 17 states, including states where income equality is rampant. "Well, because poor people don't vote," Sanders said. "I mean, that's just a fact. That's a sad reality of American society."
The senator, who hails from Vermont, has been campaigning for income equality. As a matter of fact, income equality has been one of his major battle cries.
Although Sanders and his team have been successful when it comes to attracting young voters, he admitted that they have been less successful in terms of driving up turnout of lower-income people, pointing out that in the last 2014 elections, "80 percent of poor people did not vote."
"We have one - as you know - one of the lowest voter turnouts of any major country on Earth," Sanders said. "We have done a good job bringing young people in. I think we have done - had some success with lower income people."
"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.
According to Independent, Sanders has lost 55 percent of votes from individuals who belong to households with incomes of below $50,000. He is said to have lost by 21 percentage-point margins from voters belonging to a household with incomes above $100,000. Sanders also lost by 9 points from individuals from households with middle income.
Furthermore, the Guardian reports that Sanders has rejected calls for an exit from the presidential race, including a call from David Plouffe, a current Clinton supporter and a former top adviser to Barack Obama.
