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The Colorado senator was also asked about his stand on reparations for Americans the descendants of African slaves, to which he said he supports a bill in the U.S. House to study the issue and stressed the need to address systemic racism in the U.S. that has persisted far beyond slavery.

\"I've supported the bill to study reparations in the House, because I think there are distinct issues relating particularly to African American people in this country,\" Bennet said. \"There's a straight line that you can draw from slavery, through Jim Crow through the red lining and the banking and housing to mass incarceration today. And I think it's important as somebody who's been a school superintendent, it's important that we face those facts.\"

Bennet who was appointed to his Senate seat in 2009 and has subsequently won two tight re-election races in the swing state of Colorado, has struggled to break through the crowded field of Democrats vying for the party's presidential nomination.

Last week his campaign announced that the senator raised $2.8 million since announcing his candidacy on May 2, a sum that puts him far behind other top contenders like Sanders, former Vice President Joe Biden and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttitigeg, who raised $24.8 million in the second quarter of 2019, the high-water mark for the field.

But Bennet has insisted that through an aggressive campaign schedule and multiple nationally-televised debates, he has ample opportunity to introduce himself to the American public and draw a stark contrast to his Democratic rivals.

Indeed, in the first Democratic primary debate Bennet also sparred multiple times with Sanders over the issue of healthcare, arguing that the Vermont senator's plan that would eliminate private health insurance and move all Americans to a government-run system is unrealistic.

\"When Senator Sanders says that Canada is single-payer, there are 35 million people in Canada. There are 330 million people in the United States,\" Bennet, who has proposed a plan that includes a public healthcare option for Americans to opt into in lieu of private insurance, said during last month's debate in Miami, Florida.

\"We need to get to universal health care. I believe the way to do that is by finishing the work we started with Obamacare and creating a public option so that every family and every person in America can make a choice for their family,\" Bennet argued.

Bennet will head back to the early voting state of Iowa this weekend for a multi-day campaign swing, including a stop alongside nearly a dozen other presidential candidates at the Progress Iowa Corn Feed in Cedar Rapids.

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