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Bill O’Reilly vows to flee to Ireland if Sanders wins White House

Saturday, 16 January 2016 9:16 PM [ Last Update: Sunday, 17 January 2016 12:01 AM ]

Bill O’Reilly: "If Bernie Sanders gets elected president, I’m fleeing … I’m going to Ireland."

Hawkish American commentator Bill O’Reilly has vowed to flee to Ireland if Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders becomes president of the United States.

On his Fox News show on Thursday, O’Reilly argued that Sanders wanted to “dismantle” Medicare and the Affordable Care Act “in the sense that it would be Berniecare and it would be much more than it is now.”

“If Bernie Sanders gets elected president, I’m fleeing … I’m going to Ireland. And they already know it. … I shouldn’t say it publicly because that will get Sanders more votes,” O’Reilly said.

“I shouldn’t say it publicly because that will get Sanders more votes, but I’m not going to pay 90 percent of my income to that guy,” added the blustery talk show host, who is proud of his Irish roots. “I’m sorry, I’m not doing it.”

Sanders, a self-described socialist, democratic socialist, has reportedly proposed up to 90 percent personal income tax rates for top American earners.

Elsewhere in his remarks, O’Reilly said that criticism from Chelsea Clinton, daughter of leading Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, blaming Sanders of attempting to dismantle Medicare and ObamaCare, is misleading.

“He wants to dismantle it in the sense that it would be BernieCare, and it would be much more than it is now,” he said.

Clinton is reportedly planning a massive advertising blitz to fend off the challenge from the Vermont senator, Sanders, who is currently running neck-and-neck with Clinton in Iowa and New Hampshire.

In the first three months of 2016, Clinton’s campaign would almost double the proportion of money it devoted to advertising last year, Reuters reported, citing a summary of Clinton’s spending plans.

New national polling shows that Sanders, who was behind by about 30 percentage points in the summer, is continuing to narrow the gap with Clinton, creating a sense of déjà vu about 2008, when Clinton was eventually defeated by underdog Barack Obama.

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