On the same day Bernie Sander topped Clinton in a New Hampshire poll : 44-37, Hillary surrogate, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) compared Sen. Bernie Sanders’ rise in popularity within the Democratic presidential race to that of real estate mogul Donald Trump on the Republican side. McCaskill, who declared her support for Hillary Clinton back in 2013, told CNN’s “New Day” that both Sanders and Trump are tapping into public “cynicism and frustration with the government.”
Sanders rejected the idea on NBC’s “Meet the Press” this month. “I think the chord that we are touching all over the country is that people are profoundly disgusted with the economics that make the richest people richer and everybody else poorer,” Sanders said.