Sanders ups his attacks on President Obama in new interview with @kasie. [View all]

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Maddow was talking of this last night--she ran some video clips of Sanders --including his victory NH speech--touting he can get elected because he is bringing new voters into the system--but Maddow said this is not true--as you can see Dems voters is Down in both both Iowa and NH.



LiberalPhenom ‏@LiberalPhenom 32m32 minutes ago

LiberalPhenom Retweeted Brian Fallon

Just wow. Do you not realize @SenSanders turnout was down 10% in IA, 13% in NH from 2008? Where's your revolution?


Senator Sanders ups his attacks on President Obama in new interview with @kasie. http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/sanders-obama-hasn-t-closed-presidential-leadership-gap-n516586 #p2


Feb 11 2016, 10:56 am ET
Sanders: Obama Hasn't Closed 'Presidential Leadership Gap'

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/sanders-obama-hasn-t-closed-presidential-leadership-gap-n516586

by Kasie Hunt

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Bernie Sanders says the aim of his political revolution is to bring more people into the political process than President Barack Obama, arguing that he can close a presidential leadership gap that's persisted over the eight years of the Obama administration.

"There's a huge gap right now between Congress and the American people. What presidential leadership is about closing that gap," he told MSNBC in an interview Wednesday that will air in full Thursday evening on "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell."

Asked if he believed President Obama had closed that gap, Sanders said: "No, I don't. I mean, I think he has made the effort. But I think what we need, when I talk about a political revolution, is bringing millions and millions of people into the political process in a way that does not exist right now."

Sanders said his strategy for pushing through an ambitious agenda that includes single payer health care and free college tuition would involve mobilizing thousands of people who don't currently participate in the political process — though he did acknowledge that the president turned out more voters, particularly minorities, than ever before.

His remarks come as the Democratic primary turns toward more diverse states like Nevada, with a large Latino population, and particularly South Carolina, where black voters are a majority of the primary electorate. Hillary Clinton has criticized Sanders in the past for being critical of the nation's first African American president. Sanders "criticized President Obama for taking donations from Wall Street. Sen. Sanders called [Obama] weak, disappointing. He even in 2011 publicly sought someone to run in a primary against President Obama," Clinton told an audience in Charleston, S.C., earlier this month.