Senator Bernie Sanders made a stop on his campaign trail in Traverse City on Friday. We were able to have a one-on-one interview with the presidential candidate before a rally held at Streeters.

Senator Bernie Sanders made a stop on his campaign trail in Traverse City on Friday. We were able to have a one-on-one interview with the presidential candidate before a rally held at Streeters.

One of the first questions we asked Sanders on Friday was why he felt making a stop in northern Michigan was important.

"Well, the last I heard, Michigan is a big state," said Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders. "People all over the state vote. So we want to get to as many parts of the state as we can."

"A Future to Believe In" is the theme behind Sanders campaign trail and on Friday, hundreds got to listen to pressing issues he stands for.

"What this campaign is about is doing something fairly radical in American politics," said Sanders. "We're trying to tell the truth. That's a radical idea. In Michigan, in the United States, people are tired of a rigged economy and they're tired of seeing themselves and their families working longer hours for lower wages."

In addition to raising the minimum wage, Sanders says -- if he were elected president -- he wants to bring change to college tuition and the state's infrastructure.

"Michigan, I know as well as my own state of Vermont has some very serious infrastructure problems with roads and bridges and older schools and waste-water plants," said Sanders. "We can put 13 million people to work rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure and I intend to do that."

And Sanders says the main thing that makes him different than presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is the issue of trade.

"I believe that corporate America has got to invest in this country not just in China."

Sanders says he's going all the way till the Philadelphia Convention and when I asked if he would run as an independent if he didn't get the democratic nomination?

"No I would not," says Sanders.

When we asked if he would join Clinton's team if she were to take the win, he said it's a little bit speculative and he says he's running to win this election.



We also asked what might be something voters don't know about him and he brought up his family.



He says he's been married for 27 years, has four children and seven grandchildren. He also says he's the longest serving independent in the history of the United States Congress running for the democratic nomination.