Sen. Bernie Sanders

Do they want to?

No.

So the Democratic Party right now is kind of split.

I am an independent, okay, to be honest with you.

I'm the longest-serving independent.

I caucus with the Democrats, but I'm an independent.

Proud of it.

You know, so I work with people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Pramila Jayapal and Ro Khanna and a bunch of other people.

And we are trying to move the Democratic Party to be a party that stands with working class Americans and has the courage to take on powerful special interests.

Now, there's another faction of the Democratic Party that, you know, doesn't like Trump for, I think, a lot of right reasons.

I agree with him.

But basically cuddles up to the moneyed interests.

And that's the vision that we have.

Mamdani is part of the movement that I've helped try to build, Alexandria as well, and others, many, many others.

So that's kind of the split that we're seeing within the Democratic Party.

Good, all right.

Have I thought about it?

Yeah, like for about 400 years.

All right, but here is, this is the reality that I have to deal with every day.

In my view, the Republican Party, which used to be a conservative party, a small government-type party, has become, under Trump, kind of a right-wing extremist party, okay?