During a campaign speech in Bedford, N.H., on Thursday, Republican presidential nominee addressed former presidential campaign supporters of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
He said the senator made a “bad deal” with his Democratic Party counterpart, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, saying Sanders “sold out to the devil.” Even with Sanders sharing the stage, Clinton failed to draw even half as many people to her own rally, which he said was a sign her campaign was failing.
“Look at how many people are here and look at what happened recently,” he said. “Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders had very few people at their rally yesterday and that’s because they don’t like Hillary, and Bernie sold out to the devil.
“You know, Bernie—if Bernie had made the deal and just done something where maybe he did nothing and just went away, he would have been a legendary character or legendary political figure. But the deal he made with Hillary was not the right thing and it was not representative of what he should have done to people.
“We’ll have a lot of Bernie’s people supporting us, especially because of my views on trade. We are going to have a lot of Bernie people. He should’ve never made the deal. I bet you he wishes that he did not make that deal. That was not the right deal.
“The people of New Hampshire—and everywhere else—don’t care about Bernie anymore because they are looking into the future and the future is going to be something special.”
Trump drew about 3,000 people to his event in Bedford. Clinton and Sanders drew about 1,200 at an event the previous day in Durham, N.H., at which they discussed the Clinton campaign’s “debt-free college” plan and attempted to appeal to “young voters.”
