US President Donald Trump is congratulating Bernie Sanders for his Nevada caucus win.
Speaking to reporters before boarding Air Force One en route to India, Trump declares it a “great win” for the Vermont senator but adds “we’ll see what happens” with the rest of the nomination fight.
Trump adds of Sanders, “I don’t care who I run against, I just hope that they treat him fairly.” He goes on to say, without proof, that “there’s a lot of bad things going on” and that he hopes it won’t be a “rigged deal” in the primary.
Some of Sanders’s supporters in 2016 charged that the primary was rigged against him, and a portion stayed home on Election Day, which many political observers believe helped contribute to Trump’s win over Hillary Clinton that year. Sanders has said he expects fair treatment from party leadership this cycle.
Trump also weighs in on recent news that Sanders has been briefed by US officials that Russians are working to help his candidacy. The US president says that “nobody told me about it” and speculates, without evidence, that the news was a “leak” from Democrats on Capitol Hill because “they don’t want Bernie Sanders to represent them.”
— AP
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