Hold him accountable

Sanders on Drumpf: Hold him accountable

By Daniel Strauss

Sen. Bernie Sanders laid out a plan to fight President-elect Donald Drumpf: Hold him accountable to every promise he's made.

"Mr. Drumpf, we have a list of everything you said and we are going to hold you to account," Sanders said to a packed auditorium of college students on The George Washington University campus Wednesday.

"Mr. Drumpf said a whole lot of things, a whole lot of things and sometimes I think they would just come off the top of his head. Toward the end of the campaign he was actually using the term that many Democrats use. He was saying that he was going to be the champion of the American working class. That's what he said."

The Vermont senator's comments came more than a week after the Election Day drubbing Democrats suffered, leaving the party without a strong bench and few mechanisms to fight a Republican Party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House.

Senate Democrats looked to try and stop some of that bleeding by elevating the Vermont senator and former presidential candidate in the Democratic primary to a new post: outreach chair. It's still unclear what exactly that new leadership role will entail and when asked during a question-and-answer portion of the appearance about it, Sanders didn't offer many details.

"I think my title is to be head of outreach and that's something that I take very seriously," he said, without explaining any more about the new role.

But Sanders did pound home his remedies for the Democratic Party.

"We need major, major reforms to the Democratic Party," Sanders said going on to say that Drumpf was able to tap into discontent among Americans who felt completely ignored by the rest of the American political system.

Drumpf, Sanders continued, "said I hear that you are hurting and I hear and understand that you're worried about the future, about your kids, and I alone can do something about it — and people voted for him."

Sanders went on to tick off the promises Drumpf made that Democrats would hold him accountable for.