Clinton shouldn't pick VP from Wall Street: Sanders
US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has urged frontrunner Hillary Clinton not to pick her potential vice presidential candidate from Wall Street.
Sanders, an Independent senator from Vermont who is seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination, made the remarks in an interview with CBS News that will be broadcast on Sunday.
"I would hope, if I am not the nominee, that the vice presidential candidate will not be from Wall Street, will be somebody who has a history of standing up and fighting for working families, taking on the drug companies whose greed is doing so much harm, taking on Wall Street, taking on corporate America, and fight for a government that works for all of us, not just the 1 percent," Sanders said.
In another interview on Friday with The Young Turks, a popular online news show in the US, Sanders said it would be a "disaster" if Clinton picked a moderate Democrat as vice president.
“If Hillary Clinton were to win and Hillary Clinton were to bring onboard a conservative or moderate-type Democrat, I think politically that would be a disaster,” he said.
Clinton is maintaining a massive lead over Sanders in the Democratic presidential race, but the senator has vowed to stay in the race until the Democratic convention this summer.
Sanders, 74, has long argued that although he is losing the primary presidential race to Clinton, Democratic party officials should consider how well he does with independents as one of the reasons he is better prepared to compete against presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in the general election in November.
A survey released recently found that US voters have a more negative than positive opinion of both Trump and Clinton.
Sanders is a leading proponent of issues such as income equality, universal healthcare, parental leave, climate change, and campaign finance reform in the US.
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