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Bernie Sanders: “It was an election across the country, in red states and blue states, where people were looking around them and saying…”

On the recordNovember 11, 2026
It was an election across the country, in red states and blue states, where people were looking around them and saying, 'What is going on in America, when I am struggling to put food on the table, pay for healthcare, pay for housing, and I'm worried not only that my life economically is going nowhere, everything being equal, my kid in the richest country in the history of the world is going to have the lowest standard of living than I do?
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Bernie Sanders
Independent · Vermont
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Discussing the recent midterm elections and economic struggles.

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