Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) questioned whether a hypothetical Hillary Clinton presidential bid would be a boon for working families in an interview published Wednesday.
Sanders cautioned that Clinton has not announced any intention to run for president, but told Salon that “based on the kind of centrist positions that we have seen her take in the past … it remains to be seen whether she will be a forceful advocate for working families.”
The Vermont senator sparked 2016 speculation of his own when he told the Burlington Free Press he would consider running for president if no other candidate with progressive views entered the field.
Sanders told Salon he doesn’t “wake up every morning with a huge desire to be president of the United States.” But if he ran, he said, he could put the spotlight on issues that he feels don’t get enough attention, including wealth disparity and cuts to entitlement programs.
“We have a middle class that is disappearing, and somebody has got to be speaking strongly to defend our middle class,” he said.
