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Bernie Sanders speaks during a news conference Dec. 23, 2015 in Chicago. Sanders: Conservatives should vote for me

Bernie Sanders’ progressive economic platform is one even conservatives can acknowledge and get behind, the Vermont senator said Friday.

Sanders throughout his campaign has focused on wealth and income inequality, slamming America’s “rigged economy” and calling for campaign finance reform while forcefully rejecting super PACs and support from billionaires and Wall Street.

During a rally Friday in Idaho Falls, Idaho, which holds Democratic caucuses on Tuesday, Sanders touted his grass-roots fundraising apparatus bolstered by 5 million individual campaign contributions. And he also began to frame his economic talking points as issues even conservatives could get behind.

“Nobody agrees with anybody else 100 percent of the time,” Sanders said, citing his disagreements with his wife, Jane, as an example. “It would be impossible to make everybody agree with everybody on everything. But I think sometimes the divisions are not quite as deep as some would make out.”

Many Idahoans, Sanders maintained, don’t believe the current campaign finance system is logical or that democracy is about “billionaires buying elections.”

“The point that I am making is that yes, there are differences of opinion between conservatives and progressives — no doubt about that,” he said. “But on many fundamental economic issues — campaign finance reform, whether or not we have a rigged economy — there is a lot more consensus than many believe.”