ROCHESTER — With the gap between former first lady Hillary Clinton and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders closing in Granite State polls, Sanders chose to discuss a different gap during a visit to the Governor’s Inn on Sunday morning.

That gap is the inequality seen in wealth and income in the United States. Although the richest nation in the world, Sanders said the top one-tenth of 1-percent of the nation owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent combined.

With this equating to one of the most unequal wealth and income distributions of any major country on earth, Sanders said it is the “great moral issue of our time” and he wants it to change.

“At the end of the day, this great country and our government have got to belong to all of the people and not just a handful of billionaires,” he said during his hour-long visit, which saw a strong turnout despite the rain.

Sanders said if the “never-ending greed of the billionaire class” is not stopped it will “destroy our country.”

“The American people want to hear the truth about what’s going on in our society and unfortunately, they don’t get that from most politicians nor do they get it from the media,” he said. “As the wealthiest country in the history of the world, we have to understand that there is nothing that we cannot accomplish. Let’s not continue to think small, let’s think big … Envision an America that works for all of our people.”

Sanders outlined point after point regarding the ways in which he believes America is not meeting the needs of its own citizens — whether it be that of all major nations, the U.S. has the highest rate of childhood poverty; is the only one not to guarantee its workforce paid medical and family leave, paid sick time and paid vacation; or that its workforce works the most hours, yet the minimum wage is “a starvation” one.

These and other “basic economic issues” are what he believes will unite voters in rallying behind his 2016 presidential campaign.

“They can’t have it all,” he said of the “billionaire class.” “They can’t get huge tax breaks ... while children in America go hungry. They can’t continue to send our jobs to China and Vietnam when millions of people in this country are desperately looking for work. They can’t hide their profits in … tax havens while there are enormous unmet needs in this country that have to be addressed.”

In addition to addressing problems caused by wealth and income inequality, Sanders spoke about combating climate change, making college education more affordable, rebuilding the nation’s crumbling infrastructure, giving women control of their own bodies and equal pay and overturning the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling to get big money out of the political process.

The 73-year-old Democratic socialist’s two-day stump in New Hampshire continued on Sunday with a town meeting in Durham at Oyster River High School and another at the Lake Opechee Inn in Laconia.