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Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a campaign stop, Thursday, April 7, at the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO Convention in Philadelphia. | AP Photo Sanders: Clinton ‘hustling money from the wealthy'

A fired-up Bernie Sanders lashed out at Hillary Clinton on Thursday while touting his economic populist bona fides at Pennsylvania's AFL-CIO convention.

During a speech geared toward promoting his core message of solving economic inequality, Sanders suggested the labor union crowd that he is the only candidate who will look after their interests, touting his pro-union voting record.

“I will not leave here this morning and go to a Wall Street fundraiser," Sanders told the audience gathered in Philadelphia, which applauded that line. "I will not be — I will not be hustling money from the wealthy and the powerful. I grew up, in a sense, in this movement. You are my family. And we will win or lose this campaign on the backs of working families."

Sanders also pointed to the fact that he is the only candidate without a super PAC, "because I do not want or need the money from Wall Street or the drug companies or the other powerful special interests who already have so much influence over what goes in Washington.”

The Vermont senator and his campaign have frequently targeted Clinton for her paid remarks to Wall Street institutions, urging her to release transcripts of those speeches, for which she was compensated $675,000 by Goldman Sachs in 2013. Clinton has said she would only do so if all other candidates in both parties would do the same.

The latest comments come after Sanders took umbrage with recent comments made by Clinton that ran under The Washington Post headline "Clinton questions whether Sanders is qualified to be president." The story reported on an interview Clinton gave Wednesday to MSNBC's "Morning Joe" in which she did not directly question his qualifications but she did remark, for example, "I think he hadn't done his homework and he'd been talking for more than a year about doing things that he obviously hadn't really studied or understood."

In response, Sanders told supporters later Wednesday that perhaps Clinton is not qualified based on her own positions and voting record, particularly on the Iraq War authorization.