Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersJacobin editor: Primarying Schumer would force him to fight Trump's SCOTUS nominee Trump campaign plays up Biden's skills ahead of Cleveland debate: 'He's actually quite good' Young voters backing Biden by 2:1 margin: poll MORE (I-Vt.) on Friday weighed in on the latest outbreak of the "birther" controversy regarding President Obama, saying he was never asked about his birth certificate during the Democratic presidential primaries.



Sanders, who has Polish heritage, said he presumably never faced questions about his citizenship because he's white.

Maybe it has something to do with the color of my skin. — Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) September 16, 2016



Sanders often used the line during the primary campaign to slam Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBubba Wallace to be driver of Michael Jordan, Denny Hamlin NASCAR team Graham: GOP will confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee before the election Southwest Airlines, unions call for six-month extension of government aid MORE for a "racist effort to try to delegitimize the president of the United States."



"I'm running for president. Guess what? Nobody has asked for my birth certificate," he said to a cheering South Carolina audience in February.

Trump on Thursday reversed on his long-standing view that President Obama might not have been born in the United States.