The brother Bernie Sanders has joked a potential run-off between him and Michael Bloomberg for the Democratic nomination for US President would be a “very interesting… all-Jewish final, which we haven’t had before”.
Speaking on the BBC Four’s Today programme, Larry Sanders said that Mr Bloomberg was “a very strange kind of candidate”, being a former Republican Mayor of New York, and that “I don’t think he’ll get very far, but you can get quite a distance with a billion dollars or so.”
When asked his brother was radical, Mr Sanders responded: “No, the issues he struggles on – about having a good minimum wage, about having a good universal healthcare service, about having free public universities and all that sort of thing – every time they go to the polls the vast majority of people approve [of] them.
“He’s called radical because he’s serious, but the issues he wants to change in America are mainstream.”
