Sen. Bernie Sanders has been critical of the DNC endorsing candidates in primaries. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images Bernie Sanders calls DNC's Perez's endorsement of Cuomo a mistake

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Wednesday morning that DNC Chair Tom Perez’s endorsement of New York governor Andrew Cuomo for that state’s governorship was “absolutely” a mistake.

“To endorse one candidate over the other is not what the chair of the DNC should be doing,” Sanders said during an interview with the Washington Post.


Perez had previously said that the national party shouldn’t and won’t endorse in primaries. But in May he endorsed incumbent Cuomo at an event in Long Island.

“I have said…open the doors of the Democratic party. Welcome working people, welcome young people in, welcome idealism in,” Sanders said.

Sanders said there’s “a lot of agreement” between him, Perez and “Clinton people” on the issue of super delegates in elections.

“You had super delegates voting for Clinton in states that I won pretty handsomely and I think there is a general feeling that that does not make a lot of sense,” he said.

Sanders and Clinton created the Democratic Unity Reform Commission to push for a 70 percent reduction of super delegates across the United States.

Actress Cynthia Nixon, who is running against Cuomo for the governorship, was endorsed by Our Revolution — a progressive political organization inspired by Sanders’ presidential campaign in 2016.

