evidence: "I mean, you want to run for office, can you? Yup, you can," Sanders said. "You’ve got to have a certain number of signatures. But if you’re going to win, and I have 10 times more money than you do, I will beat you 95% of the time." "Maybe if you’re really an exceptional candidate and I’m a real idiot, you will beat me once in a while. But by and large, money people will win. So if you’re asking me, are we a democracy, in one sense, we are," he continued. But money, he said, is the "real power."