Bernie Sanders is really hoping Donald Trump is the Republican nominee

For his own selfish reasons, Bernie Sanders really wants Donald Trump to be the Republican nominee. The Vermont senator admitted at a New Hampshire town hall Wednesday night that he's pulling for Trump in the GOP primary only for the chance to crush him later. "I would love the opportunity to run against him," the Democratic presidential candidate said. "I think we would win by a lot."

Sanders then explained why, given the choice between him and Trump, a voter should obviously support him. "If you examine his agenda, it is not an agenda for working Americans," Sanders said, underscoring that Trump once said "wages are too high in America."

"And here's the other one that kind of blows me away," he added. "Trump is, as you know, a well-known scientist. Brilliant scientist. ...[Trump] has concluded after years of studying the issue that climate change is a hoax, brought to us by the Chinese. Now that shocked me... because I thought that he would've thought it was a hoax brought to us by the Mexicans or the Muslims."

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Trump was quick to respond to Sanders' remarks on Twitter, dismissing the jabs as nothing more than reverse psychology. Becca Stanek