Sanders: Young Voters ‘Very Engaged’ on Climate Change, ‘Institutional Racism’

‘By definition young people are idealistic and they want our country to do more in many ways than we are currently doing’

SCARBOROUGH: “So we put a number up earlier today. Nobody around the table from Bob Woodward to Howard Dean to Cokie Roberts had ever seen anything like it before. It was the split of the young voters in Iowa. Bernie Sanders, 84 percent. Hillary Clinton, 14 percent in the youth vote. We couldn’t explain the huge disparity, historic disparity. Why do you think you did so well with young voters and why do you think she’s doing so poorly with young voters?”
SANDERS: “Well Joe, I wish I could give you a full, and significant explanation. I don’t have it. But this is what I’ll say. Two things. Number one, by definition young people are idealistic, and they want our country to do more in many ways than we are currently doing. They are concerned about institutional racism, they’re concerned about a broken criminal justice system. They’re very engaged on the issue of climate change and the need to transform our energy system away from fossil fuel, and obviously there’s the economic reason. Look, these young people for the first time in the modern history of America are looking at a situation where they may have a lower standard of living than their parents while almost all new income and wealth is going to the top 1 percent. They’re smart, they see that. And they want to see an economy that works for all, not just the billionaire class.”

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