The New York Times has been against Bernie Sanders from the start because he campaigns against their interests, said the senator on Meet the Press on Sunday, one week ahead of a seven-state primary.
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“I have a real problem with The New York Times, which from day one has been trying to be dismissive of our campaign and be very negative about our campaign,” said Sanders to presenter Chuck Todd.
He added that bad journalism — "when they talk to a handful of people and do a front-page story" against issues he campaigns for — is “a problem for The New York Times, not for my campaign.”
Todd, who interviewed Hillary Clinton last week, pressed Sanders on how he plans to secure the nomination with so few delegates and what he thinks of Clinton’s latest email scandal. He later quoted the New York Times’ editorial on the FBI investigations: "the nation should not be judging leadership as a measure of who is less untrustworthy.”
Sanders responded that rather than be distracted with glossy investigations, he is focused on California — the “big enchilada, so to speak” — and on real issues such as “the future of the American middle class and how we deal with the fundamental problems that they are facing.”
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He also said that the recipe to winning is convincing some of the 400 superdelegates pledged to Clinton from the start to come to his side and to encourage more voters to come out on primary day.
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When asked about what he thinks of Clinton’s potential running mate Tim Kaine, a moderate Democrat and former chair of the Democratic National Committee, Sanders said:
“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 one percent.”
He would not answer if he would consider running on Clinton’s ticket.