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Sanders: I Lost Because of ‘Poor People’

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Explaining why Clinton did well in states with high income inequality.

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Bernie Sanders said on Saturday during a taping of Meet the Press that he lost some of the past primary contests to Hillary Clinton because "poor people don't vote." “I mean, that's just a fact. That's a sad reality of American society," Sanders said when asked why Clinton had beaten him in 16 of the 17 states so far with the highest levels of income inequality. He said that one weakness of his voter turnout operation was getting lower-income people to the polls.

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