Nigel Farage: 'I'm hoping' Sanders wins Democratic nomination for president

Brexit Party Leader Nigel Farage hopes that President Trump draws Sen. Bernie Sanders as his Democratic rival in the 2020 general election.

"I'm obviously hoping very much that he wins the nomination," he told Just the News on Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside of Washington, D.C. "I think he's the best news the Republican Party has ever had." 

Farage comments come several days after Sanders, a democratic-socialist seeking the Democratic Party nomination, applauding parts of the Cuban regime's policies under Fidel Castro.

To counter Sanders' message on single-payer health care, student loan forgiveness and universal pre-K, Farage said Trump should "let Sanders keep talking. Let him keep digging a great big hole that middle America will never vote for."

When asked if he's satisfied with Trump's job performance on foreign policy, Farage replied, "I think America's place in the world has been re-established remarkably in the last three-and-a-half years, after all those years of drift under Obama. I think on balance he's getting his foreign policy right."