Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders said on CNN's "State of the Union" this week that the Republican Party is in big trouble in the 2018 midterms.



"What we're seeing in Alabama, what we're seeing in Virginia, New Jersey and in states all across this country, are large voter turnouts, are people standing up and fighting back and demanding that we have a government that represents all of us, not just the 1%," Sanders told CNN's Jake Tapper in an interview that aired Sunday.



He continued, "If I were the Republicans, I would worry very much about 2018."











"What I'm going to be doing, is everything I can to rally young people and working people," Sanders said.



"He ran for president saying that he was going to defend the interests of the working class and the middle class, and it turned out he lied," Sanders said about President Trump. "What you are seeing is a referendum on Donald Trump about a man who said one thing during the campaign and his actions are very, very different."