Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders cast his vote Tuesday at the Robert Miller Community & Recreation Center in Burlington’s New North End.

Sanders arrived just before 11 a.m. with wife, Jane Sanders, by his side.

Speaking to reporters outside, Sanders called the 2018 midterm election the “most important in the modern history of this country.”

“Today is a monumental election,” Sanders said. “I hope very much that at the end of the day, we end a one-party rule in Washington.”

Sanders said young people have gotten involved in the political process in a way that not seen in recent years.

“There is an enormous amount of enthusiasm at the grassroots level,” he said. ” What we are seeing is a significant increase in early voting. I am told here and all over the country that voter turn out is high. I think if voter turn out is high, we are going to end one-party rule in Washington.”

According to the Secretary of State’s office, as of this morning, nearly 69,000 people had cast early or absentee ballots this year — more than twice as many early votes counted in the last midterm, 2014.

Sanders said that if a ‘blue wave’ of Democratic victories does wash over Washington D.C., it will mean taking on President Donald Trump.

Trump, Sanders said, has, “given massive tax cuts to the wealthy, and tried to throw 32 million people off of the health care they have.”

He also called the president “the most racist, sexist, homophobic, and bigoted president, that I have ever seen in my life.”

Over the last few weeks, Sanders has spent much of his time campaigning for candidates in 13 other states.

Sanders will await election results Tuesday evening at the Hilton Hotel in Burlington, along with Democrats Christine Hallquist and Peter Welch.