sen. bernie sanders, appearing monday on <u+201c>the view<u+201d>: here<u+2019>s what happened. do we have racists and sexists in this country? we do. on the other hand, i think what happened is trump touched a nerve on the part of millions of people that media doesn<u+2019>t often talk about. and that is, you<u+2019>ve got a middle class for the last 40 years that has been shrinking. you<u+2019>ve got people working two or three jobs. you<u+2019>ve got a single mom who can<u+2019>t afford $12,000 a year for child care. you<u+2019>ve got a worker who<u+2019>s seen his job go to china. you<u+2019>ve got a parent who<u+2019>s wondering how in god<u+2019>s name when i make $40,000 a year am i going to be able to send my kid to college. you<u+2019>ve got a 60-year-old worker today who has $500 in the bank and is facing retirement. you<u+2019>ve got millions of people who are living in extraordinary economic anxiety. and meanwhile the very richest people and largest corporations are doing phenomenally well. and people are saying all over this country<u+2014>black and white, latino<u+2014><u+201c>what about me? who<u+2019>s going to stand up for me?<u+201d> and in my view the democratic party has not been as strong as it should be in saying yeah, we<u+2019>re going to stand with the working people. joy behar: but you did. sanders : i did. i did. joy behar : let me ask you something: so if you were the candidate, they say you would have won. i<u+2019>ve been reading about that. sanders : the answer is, who knows, and who will ever know. but the point is we<u+2019>ve got to talk about the future and how we go forward.
notable & quotable: would bernie have won? - wsj
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