In an interview Thursday on "Late Night With Seth Meyers," Sen. Bernie Sanders talks about why he thinks left-wing politics will not scare Americans into voting for President Trump.



"You're very left, you must be aware that Donald Trump would paint you as even further left?" Meyers asked Sanders.



"I don't use the word 'left.' I am a democratic socialist, that's the way it is," Sanders replied. "But the issues that we talk about -- is it 'left' to say that in this country we should have a minimum wage that is a living wage? Is it 'left' to say that everybody should have healthcare as a right, that we should expand social security because so many of our elderly people can't make it on $12-15,000 a year? Is it 'left' to say that we have to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure and create millions of jobs? Is it 'left' to say that we have to address the crisis of climate change? Or that we have to deal with criminal justice reform or immigration? We have to deal with sexism, racism, homophobia? I don't think those are left issues."



"Sometimes the media makes a big deal about it, I think, in fact, on all of those issues and more --sensible gun safety legislation -- we have a strong majority of the American people saying, yeah, I agree with that. And let's have people in Washington stand with me instead of wealthy campaign contributors. That's kind of what this campaign is about."





