Story highlights "What you are seeing is a referendum on Donald Trump," Sanders saidSanders said Trump campaigned on helping the working class, but in office was delivering for the wealthy(CNN) Voters' views of President Donald Trump's performance should spell trouble for his party in the midterm elections, Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders said on CNN's "State of the Union." He continued, "If I were the Republicans, I would worry very much about 2018." Sanders pointed to the recent special election in the heavily Republican state of Alabama, where Democrat Doug Jones defeated Republican Roy Moore. "He ran for president saying that he was going to defend the interests of the working class and the middle class, and it turned out he lied," Sanders said. "What you are seeing is a referendum on Donald Trump about a man who said one thing during the campaign and his actions are very, very different."

Source: CNN December 24, 2017 14:03 UTC