Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) accused Democrats of turning their backs on the working class while recently breaking down why Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign failed.

During a stop in Wheeling, West Virginia, of his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour, the nation’s most prominent progressive told a packed auditorium Saturday that Harris had “too many billionaires telling her not to stand up for the working class of this country.”

“I like Kamala, she’s a friend of mine,” he told host Dana Bash. “But her core consultants, you know, were very influenced by wealthy people.”

“How do you run for president and not develop a strong agenda which speaks to the economic crises facing working families?” the Vermont senator said.

Detailing the struggles that every day Americans face, Sanders said, “We have more income and wealth inequality today than we’ve ever had. We’ve got 60% of our people living paycheck to paycheck.”

“You’ve got a health care system which is broken and dysfunctional, and despite spending so much, we’re the only major country not to guarantee health care to all people,” he went on. “How do you not talk about these issues?”

While Bash reminded Sanders that “affordability” was part of Harris’ platform, he dismissed her ideas as too “vague” for average voters to see as real solutions to real problems.

His strategy for winning back the working class? Unwavering support for struggling Americans.

“Is it a radical idea that we join every other major country on Earth and guarantee health care to all people? Is that a radical idea?” he asked. “You tell me how many people are talking about that.”

Also advocating for livable wages and easier access to higher education, he said, “These ideas exist all over the world. They don’t exist in America. And they don’t exist because of the power of the oligarchs economically and politically.”

“In my view, the current political system in the United States of America is broken and corrupt,” he went on.

Sanders’ message wasn’t without a glimmer of hope, however.

“If we stand together, if we’re united, if we don’t let Trump divide us up, there’s no stopping what we can do as a nation in terms of improving life for ordinary people,” he told Bash.