Tom Perez on 2020: ‘Most Dangerous President in American History,’ U.S. Can’t Survive Four More Years

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MITCHELL: "What makes you so confident? With all due respect, I didn’t happen last time with all the talk of unity. There really was no unity and there was a lot of resentment from the Sanders people. What makes you think after you just saw that Bernie Sanders is going to embrace Joe Biden after the way he’s criticized him if he comes up short on delegates?"

PEREZ : Well, look at 2008, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton had a spirited campaign that went all the way to the end and they came together. They came together —"

MITCHELL: "Neither of them are Bernie Sanders."

PEREZ: “I have great faith in whoever wins the nomination. Senator Sanders, the vice president, they all understand that — this is a different moment. This is the most dangerous president in American history, Andrea. This is our democracy as we know it that’s on the ballot. We can withstand four years of Donald Trump, but we can’t withstand eight. And you see it in the voter turnout. 84% of the people who were polled in the exit polling yesterday said I will vote — I will support whoever the nominee is. That’s what we’re going to do at the DNC. We’ve worked hard to make sure we’re building trust. We engaged in very dramatic reforms of our primary process. We returned power to the people. We limited the role of Super delegates. Senator Sanders’ team was part of that. They were a really constructive part of that.”