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Making another appearance on the circuit, Bernie Sanders expands a bit on his newly stated goal to change the larger presidential election on CBS’s Face the Nation.

“What we are trying to do in this campaign,” Sanders says, “with some success, is bring people into the political process.”

The senator decries the low voter turnout of past elections, saying that the US has “one of the lowest voter turnouts” of industrialized nations, and that in the last election 63% of Americans didn’t vote. Sanders is close: per Politifact, 64.1% of the voting-eligible population did not vote in 2012.

He says “I would hope that if I am the nominee then on election day” the US would have large voter turnout.

Citing his remarkable support from young people and individual donors, he adds: “we are the future of the Democratic party.”

“We can change the dynamics of American politics so it is not just big money interests that elect candidates,” he continues, “but that we have a vibrant democracy where all people stand up.”

He takes particular issue with closed primaries, saying that “in New York state 3 million independents were ineligible to vote”.

And at last he again vows to stay in the race through the final contests in June: “there is not a question of if we are going to continue, we are going to continue.”