Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersButtigieg stands in as Pence for Harris's debate practice Bernie Sanders warns of 'nightmare scenario' if Trump refuses election results Harris joins women's voter mobilization event also featuring Pelosi, Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda MORE (I-Vt.) said Saturday that a candidate for president shouldn’t be able to get away with treating women the way Republican nominee Donald Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE has.

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In an interview with NowThis News, the former Democratic presidential hopeful said he couldn’t repeat words Trump used in a 2005 tape that surfaced Friday or things he has said in the past about women.

“When you run for president, there has got to be at least a threshold of what I would call decency,” Sanders said. “Right? You can’t go around treating women as if they were objects.

“And, I think, if nothing else, if his views on economics, healthcare, the environment do not disqualify him, certainly I cannot understand how anybody would want somebody like this to become president of the United States.”

Trump has faced swift backlash since the 2005 tapes surfaced showing him talking in explicit sexual terms about various women.