Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said Sunday that while he disagrees with Hillary Clinton on “a number of issues,” he thinks some of her opponents do so because they are “sexist.”
CBS’ John Dickerson asked Sanders if the people “who are making a link between [Hillary’s] emails and trustworthiness, are they mistaken? Are they giving into gossip?”
“I can’t think of many personalities who have been attacked for more reasons than Hillary Clinton,” Sanders said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
Sanders said he has known Hillary for “25 years” and that he admires, respects, and likes her, but “she and I have very different points of view on a number of issues.”
He pointed to the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Keystone XL pipeline as areas where the two Democratic presidential candidates disagree.
“I think we have to take on the billionaire class and Wall Street. I’m not quite sure that’s her view,” he said.
Still, he said that he doesn’t “know that a man would be treated the same way that Hillary is,” adding that he thinks “some of it is sexist.”
