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OKLAHOMA CITY<span style="color: Red;">*</span>—<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Bernie Sanders didn’t spend time in Oklahoma Sunday focusing on his massive defeat in South Carolina’s Saturday primary.
Instead, the Democratic presidential candidate<span style="color: Red;">*</span>looked ahead to the general election and beating GOP hopeful Donald Trump.
At an Oklahoma City rally, Sanders drew big applause for saying that nothing would please him more than defeating the New York billionaire.
He said Americans won’t want a president who insults Mexicans, Muslims, women, African Americans, veterans and “basically anybody who does not look" like him.
Democratic Party presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks during a campaign rally on February 28, 2016 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: J Pat Carter, Getty Images)
“Some of his supporters say we like Mr. Trump because he tells it like it is. Bigotry is not telling it like it is,” Sanders said to cheers from about<span style="color: Red;">*</span>6,000 supporters. “We will win because bringing people together trumps divisiveness. We will win because community trumps selfishness. And mostly, most importantly, we will win because love trumps hatred.”
Earlier Sunday, Sanders criticized Trump for not disavowing support from David Duke, the ex-Ku Klux Klan leader. Sanders’ tweet — “America's first black president cannot and will not be succeeded by a hatemonger who refuses to condemn the KKK” — was retweeted by his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton’s account.
America's first black president cannot and will not be succeeded by a hatemonger who refuses to condemn the KKK.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 28, 2016
At the Oklahoma rally, Sanders pointed to his differences with Clinton and called once again for Clinton to release transcripts of paid speeches she gave to Goldman Sachs and other special interest groups. Clinton has said she would release the transcripts when others, including Republicans, release theirs.
“I think if you’re going to get paid $200,000 for a speech it must be a pretty damned good speech and if it’s such a good speech you got to release the transcripts. Let everybody see them,” Sanders said in Oklahoma City. “In fact, I can’t wait to see it. It has to be an unbelievably great speech.”
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