Bernie Sanders on Hillary Clinton: 'We're going to win this thing'

Hillary Clinton can be beaten in the Democratic primary, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said in an interview aired on the day he begins his bid for the White House.

“I think we’re going to have a surprise for you,” Sanders told ABC’s Jon Karl in an interview that aired Thursday on “Good Morning America.” “We’re going to win this thing.”


Sanders said he thinks the American people have had enough of “establishment politics.”

“We are a looking at a system where our democracy is being owned by a handful of billionaires,” the self-described ‘democratic socialist‘ said. “That is wrong.”

Sanders confirmed that he will begin his presidential campaign on Thursday in an interview with The Associated Press published Wednesday night.

“People should not underestimate me,” the 73-year-old Vermont independent senator said. “I’ve run outside of the two-party system, defeating Democrats and Republicans, taking on big-money candidates and, you know, I think the message that has resonated in Vermont is a message that can resonate all over this country.”

Sanders also addressed President Barack Obama’s gibe about him at last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, in which Obama joked that “apparently some folks want to see a pot-smoking socialist in the White House.”

“As a matter of fact, I’m not a pot smoker,” Sanders said. “I have, admittedly, some 30 or 40 years ago.”