CNBC's Kelly Evans Hints Socialist Sanders Out of Touch with Small-Town: 'Walmart Was a Godsend'

Read more at NewsBusters | Bernie Sanders is out of touch with the experience of many small-town Americans, CNBC anchor Kelly Evans hinted on the February 2 Closing Bell program. The local Walmart in her small town growing up was a "godsend," according to Evans, who was raised in Lexington, Va. Evans made the remarks following a report by colleague John Harwood in which he played a soundbite of the Vermont socialist blasting the "unacceptability" of "the Walton family of Walmart owning more wealth than the bottom 40 percent" of Americans.