Bernie Sanders: Donald Trump Comments On Mexicans An 'Outrage'

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Source: CNN

By Tanzina Vega
Updated 1:56 PM ET, Mon July 13, 2015

Kansas City, Missouri (CNN)In a speech to the largest Latino civil rights group in the United States, Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders blasted Donald Trump for comments the businessman turned Republican presidential candidate made about Mexicans that have enraged Latinos across the country.

"Not Donald Trump, not anyone else will be successful in dividing us based on race or our country of origin," Sanders told an enthusiastic crowd of about 400 people gathered here Monday for the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza. "Racism has plagued the United States since its inception," Sanders said while recalling his own family history including losing family members during the Holocaust.

After the speech, Sanders told reporters that Trump's comments were an "outrage."

"For a major candidate for president of the United States to be throwing slurs at one group of people because of the country of origin that they came from is totally unacceptable, period."

Sanders was asked twice whether Trump was a racist but both times he declined to answer. "I don't want to psychoanalyze Donald Trump," he said.

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