“I prefer the term, actually, to be a progressive, and I’ll tell you why”, Sanders said, noting that countries like Denmark have universal health care and free college.
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Addressing questions about whether he would be able to compete against a Republican nominee in the general election, he pointed to recent polls that show he’s doing nearly as well as Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and said “that will only get better”.
Ahead of the show’s taping, approximately 150 Sanders supporters gathered across the street from the Ed Sullivan Theater in Midtown Manhattan to catch a glimpse of the presidential candidate, according to The Guardian’s Adam Gabbatt.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert continued its run of big-ticket guests Tuesday night as Apple CEO Tim Cook stopped by the Ed Sullivan Theater for a chat. Before Sanders sat down for their interview, Colbert first served up a “Bern Notice” summarizing the candidate’s “meteoric rise”.
“A guy in his 70s filling stadiums”, Colbert said. “A Rolling Stone?” he quipped.
Sanders discussed Trump’s actions when Colbert mentioned that people are equating him to the “Democratic Trump“.
I think that is disgraceful and not something we should be doing in 2015.
Sanders responded that Trump was preying on “xenophobia and, frankly, racism – describing an entire group of people, in this case, Mexicans, as rapists or as criminals”.
But Colbert asked him how he expected to go all the way to the White House without soliciting campaign contributions from big donors. What I am talking about is a vision that goes beyond telling us that we have to hate a group of people.
“You don’t have every tool in your toolbox”, Colbert said. “You don’t bring a spoon to a knife fight”, Colbert stated.
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Sanders also reiterated that, despite facing competitors with huge campaign accounts, he will not rely on a Super PAC for donations because he doesn’t support the billionaire class. “I don’t want their money”, he said.
