Bernie Sanders: "We Have A Path Towards Victory" This Week Abc FULL Interview STEPHANOPOULOS: So how can Bernie Sanders come back? He is here now to tell us. Senator Sanders, thank you for joining us this morning. And you were admirably candid last Saturday after South Carolina. You said you get decimated. What's your take on last night? SEN. BERNIE SANDERS, 2016 DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, I think we did great overall yesterday. We won, as you mentioned, by over two to one in Kansas, we did very well in Nebraska. There's going to be a caucus in Maine. And if the turnout is high, I think we're going to win there. That would mean that we'd have won eight primaries and caucuses. And what impresses me very much, George, and what I mean when I talk about a political revolution, in Kansas they had the largest voter turnout in their caucus history. That was the case in Colorado where we won as well. In fact, in every primary and caucus that we have won, we have won by double digit numbers. And we're winning all across the country. I think geographically, we are looking good. I think we have a path toward victory. STEPHANOPOULOS: You've still got that demographic problem, though, you've still got that -- you've winning in these states that are overwhelmingly white like Kansas and Nebraska. Any state that has more than about 10 percent African-American vote, she's killing you. SANDERS: Well, we are -- well, I think you're going to see those numbers change as well. And what we are noticing, and this is very interesting, it's not just racial, it's more generational. We are doing better and better with young African-Americans, young Latinos, and young whites. In fact, in many instances we ware winning those demographics. With the older people, we're not doing as well. And that's something that we're going to have to work on. But I think here in Michigan where there is a caucus coming up, where there is a primary coming up on Tuesday, I think the issues of trade, where NAFTA and permanent normal trade relations have decimated communities all over Michigan, all over Illinois, all over Ohio, I have had helped lead the opposition to these disastrous trade agreements. Secretary Clinton, by and large, has supported them all. I think that's going to give us a lot of momentum here in the Midwest. STEPHANOPOULOS: Yeah, in fact, you put out a tweet this week, and I want to put that up on the board right now. It says the people of Detroit know the real cost of Hillary Clinton's free trade policy. It shows those abandoned buildings, those abandoned homes in downtown Detroit. Is that really fair, though? I mean, Detroit has been hollowed out since the race riots in 1968. SANDERS: Well, what is fair, George, and honestly I didn't know this until a week ago, that in 1960 it turns out Detroit was one of the wealthiest cities in America. Flint, Michigan, which today is mired in terrible poverty, was an extremely prosperous city. There is no doubt -- I don't think anyone debates this, that these disastrous trade policies -- NAFTA, permanent normal trade relation with China, have cost this country millions of decent paying jobs and resulted in a race to the bottom, where many of the new jobs being created pay significantly less than those jobs used to pay years ago. That is the result of a disastrous trade policy.

• published: 06 Mar 2016
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