Bernie Sanders responded Wednesday to Fox News host Bill O’Reilly’s threat to leave the United States if Sanders becomes president: That’s all the more reason to vote for him, the Democratic presidential candidate told “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert.
“Let me say something about Bill O’Reilly. Bill said — and this is a reason why people might want to vote for me — Bill said that if I won the presidency he would move to Ireland,” Sanders said. “Electing me president is a twofer. You get Sanders and you got, you know, Bill to go to Ireland.”
Sanders’ appearance on Colbert’s “Late Show” follows his win in the Democratic New Hampshire primary on Tuesday. He beat former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by 22 percentage points in the nation’s first primary election.
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Colbert asked if Sanders agreed with O’Reilly when the Fox News host said that Sanders and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump were the same person, but “with different haircuts.” Sanders responded that he thought the two were similar in that their voters are both angry — but that Trump’s supporters pander to fear.
“People have a right to be angry, but what we need to be is rational in figuring out how we address the problems and not simply scapegoating minorities,” Sanders said.









