CNN host Carol Costello called out Bernie Sanders surrogate Nina Turner on Wednesday for referring to the 74-year-old U.S. Senator as a "a new type of leadership."
Sanders (I., Vt.) has been in Congress since 1991, serving in the House of Representatives from then until he was elected to the Senate in 2006. He was re-elected in 2012.
"He has been a consistent warrior for the people in this country, Carol, and that is what people are looking for," Turner said. "A new type of leadership that will stand up and say enough is enough, and that the working class and middle class in this country deserve—"
"I'm just confused when you say about new leadership, because Bernie Sanders has been in the [Congress] an awfully long time," Costello said.
Turner championed Sanders' popularity with millennials, a group where he consistently pummels Hillary Clinton in the polls, saying their young eyes "know new leadership when they see it."
"But, Carol, look at the millennials," Turner said. "They love him. They see in him the future, a person who will stand up and be relentless in standing up even when it is not convenient. So we've got to take a page from the millennials, these twenty-somethings. They know new leadership when they see it, and new in the sense that he will not apologize and he will not back down for saying, yes, universal health care is a moral right in this country."
Turner, a former Ohio state senator, has been one of Sanders' most visible advocates on television. Turner, an African American, said Monday that "brand loyalty" was causing black voters to support Clinton so strongly over Sanders in spite of 1996 remarks she made about "super predators."
Appearing alongside Turner on CNN was Clinton surrogate Jennifer Granholm, the former governor of Michigan.