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US DEMOCRATIC Senator Bernie Sanders urged a change of course on Thursday in response to working-class voters’ rejection of his neoliberal-led party.

Addressing a rally outside the Capitol building in Washington in front of a banner reading: “Heal America,” Mr Sanders said that “the failure of the Democratic Party that must be rectified” in the wake of Donald Trump’s presidential election victory.

Mr Trump had recognised that “there are millions of people today — working-class people, middle-class people, low-income people — who are living in despair,” falling prey to alcoholism, drug addiction and suicide.

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