DNC Chair: It’s Not a Problem Bernie Sanders Isn’t a Capitalist

MITCHELL: "Bernie Sanders told Chuck Todd on 'Meet the Press' that he's a Democratic socialist, not a capitalist. Can someone who is not a capitalist be a successful Democratic general election candidate against any of the Republicans?"
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: "Bernie Sanders has been talking about issues that are important to Americans so that they can reach the middle class. He's turned out crowds in large numbers because he's been focused on closing the wage gap, on equal pay for equal work, on making sure that our economic system is more fair. Any one of our candidates, whether it's Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton, Jim Webb, Lincoln Chaffee, Martin O'Malley --"
MITCHELL: "You don't think that's a sound bite? I am not a capitalist, that's going to play out across the television screens of America?"
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: "Andrea, Americans are longing to continue the 67 straight months of job growth we have had in the private sector under Barack Obama. What they don't want to do is go back to the failed policies of the past that got us into the worst economic crisis since the great depression. We have got Republicans who are saying on the other side that they want to end Medicare as we know it, that want to kick immigrants out of this country, that don't care about equal pay for equal work for women, that want to deny women access to health care. That's the contrast, and any one of our candidates is talking about moving our country forward and the Republicans are obviously all trying to take our country backward."
MITCHELL: "Debbie Wasserman Schultz, thank you very much."