S16, Ep11 How To Fail: Bernie Sanders on defeat, defiance and the struggles that shaped him (plus: the power of mittens)
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
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Is There a Similarity Between the United States and the United Kingdom?
I suspect there are significant similarities that working people are living on the enormous stress here. I looked around me in 2016 and Hillary Clinton was the anointed candidate of the Democratic Establishment. So I ended up running because I thought it was important to talk about issues that most politicians were not talking about. And when we started that campaign, we were like it about three, five percent in the polls. But then it turned out that the more people were hearing my analysis and my vision, those numbers grew. We raised several hundred million dollars in 2016, averaging $27 a contribution, which is for American politics. Trust me, it's a very low number.
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