Bernie Sanders: I Could Beat Hillary Clinton

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has not yet announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, but when he appeared on Fusion’s America with Jorge Ramos this week, the host asked him point blank if he thinks he has any chance of beating the inevitable Hillary Clinton in a primary.

“I think there is a lot of frustration and anger among working families who, in many cases, are working longer hours for low wages,” Sanders said. “Yet what they’re seeing is while their standard of living goes down, almost all new income goes to the top 1 percent. And we have this obscene level of income and wealth inequality. So the anger and frustration is out there.”

“Yes, I do think that if I ran, I could win,” he concluded.

In a recent poll of likely Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire, Clinton leads Sanders 47% to 8%.

Watch video below, via Fusion:

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