'Polls go up and polls go down,' the Vermont Senator said blithely when asked to explain his slight dip in national polling.
show Sanders hovering a few points higher than 13 percent, though a noticeable slip is still present. As of mid-June, data showed him sandwiched between former Vice President Joe Biden, in first place, and Mass. Senator Elizabeth Warren, in third.)
"Well, I explain it in the sense that polls go up and polls go down," Sanders told Wallace."I am beating President Trump fairly decisively, which is consistent with all of the polling that I have seen. I think, frankly, I am the strongest candidate to defeat Trump," he added, noting that he believed his campaign could compete in the battleground states.
"We have an economy today that is working phenomenally well for the top 1 percent, while the working class in this country is still being decimated," he said, citing data from the U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders addresses the Get Out the Vote Rally in support of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum at the University of Central Florida, CFE Arena on October 31, 2018 in Orlando, Florida.
While some Democratic hopefuls have appeared in town halls on Fox News, Warren has refused to appear on the network, calling the channel"a hate-for-profit racket" that gives"a megaphone to racists and conspiracists." According to a report dated in mid-May,
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