Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Sunday pushed back on a suggestion from Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) to change how Democrats are talking about President Trump and his administration, saying "the American people are not quite as dumb as Ms. Slotkin thinks they are."

Sanders was pressed in a TV interview about a recent critique from Slotkin, a fellow member of the Senate Democratic caucus, who advised Democrats to drop the term "oligarchy" when criticizing Trump and his allies.

Slotkin, who won her seat in a battleground state carried by Trump last year, told Politico that the term doesn't resonate with voters outside of coastal areas and suggested the party should instead say it opposes "kings."

Sanders, who has crisscrossed primarily western U.S. cities with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) this year for the pair's "Fighting Oligarchy" tour, drawing tens of thousands of people,........

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