Republicans are targeting affluent supporters and ignoring the middle class, the Democratic presidential contender said in a radio interview airing Thursday morning.

“Essentially, when you watch that debate, just imagine that you are one of the wealthiest people in this country and extremely greedy and selfish,” Sanders told host Ari Rabin-Havt on SiriusXM’s “ The Agenda .”

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“You’re going to have 10 candidates more or less talking about your needs and not the needs of working people.”

Sanders predicted the events would tout a message favoring wealthy special interests.

“They want to give more tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires at a time when the rich are getting much richer,” he told Rabin-Havt.

“There may be one or two of them who actually have listened to the scientific community and think that climate change is real,” Sanders said. “Most of them refuse to accept that.

“They want to cut or privatize Medicare, cut Medicaid, cut education, cut the Environmental Protection Agency,” he added. “And none of them are prepared to act aggressively to transform our energy system. That is what their agenda is.”

Fox News is hosting two GOP presidential debates Thursday evening.

The prime-time event features the top 10 Republican 2016 contenders based on an average of national polling results.

The remaining seven GOP contenders are meeting in a separate event in at 5 p.m.

New York business mogul Donald Trump headlines the main Fox News contest as the GOP’s clear 2016 frontrunner.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker are next in the polls.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) were also invited to the main stage clash, along with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.