Bernie Sanders Bernard (Bernie) SandersSenate Dems seek to turn tables on GOP in climate change fight Bernie Sanders Town Hall finishes third in cable news race, draws 1.4 million viewers Woman to undecided Biden: 'Just say yes' to 2020 bid MORE dismissed the media’s obsession with politicians’ hair in a New York Times Magazine interview published on Monday.

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In response to a question from reporter Ana Marie Cox about why Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonREAD: Cohen testimony alleges Trump knew Stone talked with WikiLeaks about DNC emails County GOP in Minnesota shares image comparing Sanders to Hitler Holder: 'Time to make the Electoral College a vestige of the past' MORE’s hair gets more attention than his, Sanders said that the media should focus on “serious issues.”

“When the media worries about what Hillary’s hair looks like or what my hair looks like, that’s a real problem,” the 2016 presidential hopeful said. “We have millions of people who are struggling to keep their heads above water, who want to know what candidates can do to improve their lives, and the media will very often spend more time worrying about hair than the fact that we’re the only major country on earth that doesn’t guarantee health care to all people.”



Cox defended the question as serious for “gendered reasons.”



“It’s also true that the media pays more attention to what female candidates look like than it does to what male candidates look like,” she said.



“That may be,” Sanders responded. “That may be, and it’s absolutely wrong.”