The facts that have surfaced from polls are in liaison with Sander's statement that American people should not be forced to choose the lesser of two evils in the general election.
Asked in an interview that aired on ABC's"This Week" if that's how he'd describe a possible match-up between Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, Sanders said it was 'not him making the characterization'.
"That's what the American people are saying. If you look at the favorability ratings of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, both of them have very, very high unfavorables."
"If you look at virtually all of the polls done in the last six, seven weeks, in every one of them, nationally polls and statewide polls, we defeat Trump by larger margins — in some cases, significantly larger margins — than does Secretary Clinton," Sanders added.
Sanders is also hopeful that in the case he does not win nomination, Clinton can still prevent Trump a presidency, but has warned her to make a change in her demeanors.
"I have every confidence that if Hillary Clinton is prepared to stand up to the greed of corporate America and Wall Street; is prepared to be really strong on the issue of climate change; support, as I do, a tax on carbon; is prepared to say that the United States of America should join the rest of the industrialized world and guarantee health care to all people, paid family and medical leave; is prepared to say that the grotesque level of income and wealth inequality today in America, where almost all new income and wealth is going to the top 1 percent. If she is strong on those issues, yeah, I think she will win and win by a large vote," Sanders said.
"But if she is not, she's going to have her problems," Sanders warned Clinton.
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