KESQ Exclusive: One-on-one interview with Bernie Sanders - video at link

By Jesus Reyes, Jake Ingrassia
today at 6:01 am

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke one-on-one with News Channel 3's Jake Ingrassia about campaign issues that affect the Coachella Valley. It's the only television interview Sanders gave during his one-day visit Monday.

Excerpt:

With this elections' California primary set for months earlier than the last, Sanders made clear he and his campaign intend to focus on the Golden State.

"We intend to win California and to win California, we're going to have to campaign very, very hard," Sanders said.

He answered questions about his presidential plans affecting people locally, like homelessness.

"We are the richest country in the history of the world and that is why I have proposed a massive housing construction program that will build low-income housing and affordable housing that we need," Sanders said. "We need to build housing and when we do that, we're going to put a lot of people to work at good paying jobs."

Sanders said he's working to reach Latino voters, and spoke on comprehensive immigration reform.

"Re-establishing legal statuses for the 1.8 billion people in the DACA program and their parents," Sanders said "Raising the minimum wage to a living wage, making healthcare a human right not a privilege is something that appeals to everybody certainly including the Latino community."

https://kesq.com/news/top-stories/2019/12/16/exclusive-one-on-one-interview-with-bernie-sanders/

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