Bernie Sanders said he backed calls for a non-partisan commission to oversee the election and help reassure voters.
Former contender for the Democratic nomination, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders jointed the host of voices that expressed alarm at U.S. Trump Donald Trump’s refusal to commit to the peaceful transfer of power if he loses the November election. Mr Sanders said Mr Trump is to be taken seriously.
“What I am going to talk about is something that, in my wildest dreams, I never thought I would be discussing. And that is the need to make certain that the President of the United States, if he loses this election, will abide by the will of the voters and leave office peacefully,” Mr Sanders said at during his speech ‘Saving American Democracy’ at George Washington University, here in Washington DC. Mr. Sanders remarks came a day after Mr Trump, when questioned at a…