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Members of Democratic establishment, Sanders said, are "not enthusiastic about my candidacy and are certainly not overjoyed by the fact that we have now won 19 states and are poised to win even more." | Getty Sanders: We're 'fighting for the soul of the Democratic Party'

Not only does Bernie Sanders say his campaign is a political movement and a revolution, the Democratic challenger to Hillary Clinton cast his uphill fight for the party's nomination in even more grave terms.

“We’re also fighting for the soul of the Democratic Party, whether the Democratic Party remains dependent on Wall Street contributions or whether we move in the direction" of the Sanders campaign, he said Wednesday evening on WABC Radio's "Election Central with Rita Cosby," touting his more than 7 million individual contributions.

Members of Democratic establishment, he said, are "not enthusiastic about my candidacy and are certainly not overjoyed by the fact that we have now won 19 states and are poised to win even more."

As far as whether he feels increased pressure from said establishment with his current primary winning streak, Sanders laid the stakes bare.

Sanders remarked upon "a philosophical difference of opinion, a strong difference of opinion" within the party as its superdelegates decide between him and Clinton. "Do we fight for working families, do we work with working families, do we bring them into the Democratic Party or do we remain more dependent than we should on big-money interests?” he said.