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    Bernie Sanders's Pitch to Trump Voters

    The Vermont senator is making a pitch to the working class in a bid to defeat the Republican effort to dismantle the Affordable Care Act.
    by Clare Foran Jul 11, 2017 5 minutes
    Source: John Minchillo / AP

    MORGANTOWN, W.Va.—When Bernie Sanders spoke at a rally on Sunday afternoon to stop the Republican effort to dismantle Obamacare, he didn’t wait long to bring up President Trump.

    “I am more than aware that Donald Trump did very well in the state of West Virginia, I got that,” the Vermont senator told a crowd inside a hotel ballroom. “Donald Trump told the people that he was going to be a champion of the working class,” he said. “I’m sorry to have to tell you this, but I suspect most of you already know it, Donald Trump was not telling you the truth.”

    If Democrats want to win back the White House, Congress, and hundreds of seats lost in state legislatures, the party may need to convince voters who pulled the lever for Trump of this fundamental argument: The president is not their champion, as a self-described “democratic socialist,” is doing his best to persuade them.

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