Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has overtaken Hillary Clinton in the polls in states with early primaries, like New Hampshire. Today he took his campaign to Illinois. In 1964, Sanders graduated from the University of Chicago in a ceremony at the on-campus Rockefeller chapel. Now as a U.S. Senator from Vermont, Sanders returned to students packing the pews to hear him speak.
"Let me be as blunt as I can in telling you what many of you already know. And that is, as a result of the disastrous Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United case, the American political system has been totally corrupted."
Sanders says the decision to to lift contribution caps, under the idea that spending equals speech, undermines the foundations of American democracy.
"No nominee of mine to the United States Supreme Court will get that job unless he or she is loud and clear that one of their first orders of business will be to overturn Citizens United."
Sanders' remarks come after record-setting spending in Illinois last year, largely due to Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner's largely self-funded campaign. Rauner and his affiliated PACs are expected to also pump a lot of money into next year’s state legislative races.
