Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is attributing his recent primary losses in states with the highest level of income inequality to the "fact" that "poor people don't vote," NBC News reported.
In a taped interview with NBC's "Meet the Press," moderator Chuck Todd told Sanders Saturday that "17 of the 25 states with the highest levels of income inequality have held primaries. Sixteen of those 17 states have been won by Hillary Clinton, not by you. Why?"
"Well, because poor people don't vote. I mean, that's just a fact," Sanders responded.
The Vermont senator, who has made addressing income inequality a cornerstone of his White House campaign, added that in the last 2014 midterm elections, "80 percent of poor people did not vote."
