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 dismissed the media’s obsession with politicians’ hair in a New York Times Magazine interview published on Monday.

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In response to a question from reporter Ana Marie Cox about why Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonJoe Biden looks to expand election battleground into Trump country Biden leads Trump by 12 points among Catholic voters: poll The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden goes on offense MORE’s hair gets more attention than his, Sanders said that the media should focus on “serious issues.”

“When the media worries about what Hillary’s hair looks like or what my hair looks like, that’s a real problem,” the 2016 presidential hopeful said. “We have millions of people who are struggling to keep their heads above water, who want to know what candidates can do to improve their lives, and the media will very often spend more time worrying about hair than the fact that we’re the only major country on earth that doesn’t guarantee health care to all people.”



Cox defended the question as serious for “gendered reasons.”



“It’s also true that the media pays more attention to what female candidates look like than it does to what male candidates look like,” she said.



“That may be,” Sanders responded. “That may be, and it’s absolutely wrong.”