Sanders on Trump Comparison: I Do Not Use Minorities as a Scapegoat

COLBERT: "Why do you think you can make this change?"
SANDERS: "I think because we have reached a point in American society where people are just very, very unhappy with the status quo."
COLBERT: "Do you think that there's a similarity and appeal between and you Donald Trump? Because I had Bill O'Reilly on here, on Monday night. And he said you guys, the same thing with different haircuts. And the polls show that there are a lot of people in New Hampshire who up to the last minute hadn't made up their mind between and you Donald Trump."
SANDERS: "Let me say something about Bill O'Reilly. Bill said-- and this is the reason why people might want to vote for me -- Bill said that if I won the presidency, he would move to Ireland. So electing me president is a two-fer. You get Sanders and you get Bill to go to Ireland."
COLBERT: "But there are people who are trying to choose between you and trump. Why would that be? You don't seem like two sides of the same coin."
SANDERS: "Well, I think a lot of Donald Trump's supporters are angry. They are, in many cases, people who are working longer hours for low wages. They're people who are really worried about what's going to happen to their kids. But I think what they have done is responded to Trump's false message which suggests that if we keep Muslims out of this country or if we keep scapegoating Latinos or Mexicans that somehow our country becomes better. I think that's a false solution. And my view is that, yes, people have a right to be angry. You have a right to be angry when we are the only major country on Earth that doesn't provide paid family and medical leave. When we have more people living in poverty today than almost any time in the history of this country. People have a right to be angry. But what we need to be is rational in figuring out how we address the problems and not simply scapegoating minorities."