Sen. Bernie Sanders
Bernie SandersOvernight Energy & Environment — Presented by the League of Conservation Voters — EPA finalizing rule cutting HFCs Manchin fires warning shot on plan to expand Medicare Democrats steamroll toward showdown on House floor MORE (I-Vt.) on Sunday called leaked Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails “outrageous.”
"First of all, I am not an atheist," Sanders said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
The emails showed top party officials tried to undermine Sanders’s presidential campaign. In one, an official suggests sending a surrogate to ask an unnamed candidate whether that candidate believed in God.
DNC Chief Financial Officer Brad Marshall’s email does not name the Vermont senator, but it talks about a man of “Jewish heritage” Marshall believes to be an atheist.
"I mean, it is an outrage and sad that you would have people in important positions in the DNC trying to undermine my campaign," Sanders said on Sunday. "It goes without saying the function of the DNC is to represent all of the candidates, to be fair and even-minded."
Sanders said on CNN that the emails were “outrageous” but added they did not come as a “great shock” to him.
"I think the focus, though, that I am going to go forward on right now is to make sure that Donald Trump
Donald TrumpTexas announces election audit in four counties after Trump demand Schumer sets Monday showdown on debt ceiling-government funding bill Pennsylvania AG sues to block GOP subpoenas in election probe MORE, perhaps the worst Republican candidate in the modern history of this country, somebody by temperament, somebody by ideology must not become president of the United States. I'm going to do everything I can to defeat him, to elect Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonHeller won't say if Biden won election Whitmer trailing GOP challenger by 6 points in Michigan governor race: poll GOP political operatives indicted over illegal campaign contribution from Russian national in 2016 MORE, and to keep focusing, keep focusing on the real issues facing the American people."
--This report was updated at 10:29 a.m.
