WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — If Democrats had had a better message for working-class Americans, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton would have won last week’s election by 10 percentage points, Sanders asserted.
He explained that many people who voted for President Barack Obama in the 2008 and 2012 elections abandoned the Democrats this time because they thought the party “is not standing with them.”
"I come from the white working class, and I am deeply humiliated that the Democratic Party cannot talk to the people where I came from," Sanders told CBS News.
Sanders, an independent from the state of Vermont who caucuses with Senate Democrats, also said the party needs to make a "profound change in how [it] does business.”
Republican Donald Trump won the presidential election with 290 electoral votes against Clinton's 232.
