Sanders to Wash. State delegates: Trump 'most dangerous candidate in modern history'

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders spoke to Washington State delegates in Philadelphia Wednesday morning at a breakfast event where he called Donald Trump the “the worst and most dangerous presidential candidate in the modern history of this county.”

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Sanders first thanked the delegates for their "extraordinary support that we received from your beautiful state.”

Sanders took on Trump during the latter part of his speech.

“It’s not new for us to campaign against Republicans, but understand that Donald trump is different. It’s not just that he wants to give tax breaks to billionaires. It’s not just that he thinks climate change is a hoax. It’s not just that he wants to throw 20 million people off of health care, ending the Affordable Care Act – he’s not the only Republican who wants to do those things.”

"But what makes Donald Trump different is that he is a demagogue who does not believe in the constitution of the United States of America. What he is trying to do right now is to divide us,” said Sanders.

Sanders went on to say that Trump wanted to turn some races against others, but reminded the group that the party must stay united.

“The immediate task we have in the next 100 or so days is to defeat the worst and most dangerous presidential candidate in the modern history of this county, Donald Trump,” said Sanders.

Democratic Party is the future

“In virtually every state, we not only won the significant support -- big margins of young people -- but we won overwhelming support. That tells me that the future of the Democratic Party and the future of America is with our agenda, and what that agenda is about is a bold agenda.”

Keep focused on the real issues

Sanders spoke of health care, family and medical leave, college debt and climate change as key issues the U.S. is facing.

“One of the things we tried to do in this campaign is to ask a very simple question. Why not? Why are we the only major country on earth that doesn’t guarantee health care to all people as a right?”

“How could it be that not only every major country, but poor countries around the world, say that family and medical leave is a right that we do not – that in this country today a woman is having a baby and has to go back to work a week later because she doesn’t have the money to take care of that baby?”

“How does it happen that in Germany, Scandinavia and other countries, young people are able to go to college tuition free, but in our country, millions leave school deeply and deeply in debt?”

"How can it be that we haven’t done more about climate change…We have not done more to transform our energy system?"

He went on to speak about familiar themes: Income inequality, taking on the establishment and the declining middle class.

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