Sanders’s brother: ‘I do worry a little bit about his health’

Bernie Sanders’s older brother said Tuesday he has concerns about the campaign’s impact on the Democratic presidential contender’s health.

“I do worry a little bit about his health, but the miracle is that he does it and he thrives,” Larry Sanders, 80, told The Associated Press from Oxford, England. “I think seeing him more recently as things have even gotten better electorally for him, he looks to me more comfortable and calm.

{mosads}“How he does it I don’t know. The only connection I can say [is] that his physical constitution as a runner when he was young is part of it. He could run, keep on running – and he did keep on running.”

The elder Sanders is also in politics. He ran for a seat in Parliament and is the British Green Party’s national spokesman on health.

Sanders says he can see his brother, 74, winning the presidency, despite a tough fight against Dem front-runner Hillary Clinton.

“[He can] go all the way to the White House,” he said.

“Really only in the last month or so did it seem to me that he was going to win the nomination,” he added. “I didn’t expect it to happen so quickly, but I’ve seen him in action [and] he’s a very powerful politician.

Sanders said his brother’s message was resonating with voters.

“The other thing of course is, the basis of what he’s saying is real…there has been a shift in wealth and income from the bulk of the population to the very richest, and it goes back 40 years.”

Larry Sanders said his family has a first-hand understanding of financial struggles and income inequality.

“We were not poor – we had everything we needed – but our parents argued, and what they argued about was money,” the retired academic said.

“I think a lot of politicians, if they’ve come from financially secure backgrounds, it doesn’t really resonate what it means to have these arguments and to have this tension. And Bernard, without wanting to have it, had it, and it hasn’t gone away.”