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SANDERS: “The reason the Democratic Party has struggled, in my view, over the last many years, it has lost contact with the people it used to represent, which was the working class of this country.
(Cheering and Applause)
And I personally believe that if you have the guts to stand up to the oligarchs and you run a campaign representing the needs of working families, you can, a) get a lot of small donations, and b) your program and your agenda will be strong enough to take on the big money interests.
(Applause)
But we have to ask ourselves, you know, obviously, we have got to fight Trump every day because he is the most dangerous president, perhaps in American history. But we’ve got to do more than that. We have to have a vision, Stephen, of where we want this country to go. And we don’t have that discussion. Why is it that we are the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a human right?”