Sanders: "Maybe I would have been elected president"

When asked by The Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne during a Wednesday night event whether he hurt Clinton’s chances at the White House, Sanders pushed back.

“You can argue the exact reverse — that maybe I would have been elected president of the United States,” Sanders said at The George Washington University to cheers from the crowd.

“The presumption behind that question is that we should anoint candidates for president, that a serious debate or candidates competing against each other is a bad thing for democracy.”

Sanders went on to argue that he brought “millions of people into the process” and that the vast majority likely voted for Clinton. And he said that his campaign made Clinton a “stronger candidate” because he pushed her to come out against the Keystone Pipeline and the Trans-Pacific Partnership.