Bernie Sanders slams Republican presidential candidates
US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has criticized his Republican rivals for ignoring key issues facing the United States during their second GOP presidential election debate.
“We are talking about the issues that matter to people right here. In a three-hour [debate] there was no discussion about wealth inequality, the need to end institutional racism,” Sanders said Friday in New York City’s Midtown Town Hall theater.
“The middle class is disappearing. We have 35 million living in poverty. Almost all the new wealth being created goes to the 1 percent,” the independent senator from Vermont said.
Sanders blasted participants in Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate which was held at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.
“I couldn’t take it. The energy was leaving my body,” the presidential hopeful said as he described watching the debate.
During the campaign speech, he also promoted his usual progressive themes on climate change, healthcare and college tuition costs.
Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, is the longest-serving independent lawmaker in US congressional history, albeit he caucuses with the Democratic Party.
Sanders’ emphasis on US income inequality and influence of corporate money on elections and government has helped him attract large crowds on the campaign trail.
Hillary Clinton still remains the front-runner candidate among Democratic candidates for US president, but that might change in the near future as Sanders has been rapidly gaining in several high-profile polls.
Among Republicans, billionaire businessman Donald Trump continues to dominate the crowded GOP field.
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