Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Sunday laughed off criticisms that fellow Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) had for his national tour.
The rallies put on by Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) have drawn large crowds, including in traditionally red states with districts held by Republicans in Congress.
Sanders laughed when NBC News’s Meet the Press host Kristen Welker brought up Slotkin’s advice to the Democratic Party that they stop using the word “oligarchy.”
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“Geez, we had 36,000 people out in Los Angeles, 34,000 people in Colorado, we had 30,000 people in Folsom, California, which is kind of a rural area. I think the American people are not quite as dumb as Ms. Slotkin thinks they are. I think they understand very well that the top 1%
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