Bernie Sanders' platform message of income inequality doesn't appear to be inspiring enough of the people it is most intended to move.

Reports are of the 25 states with the highest levels of income inequality primaries have already been held in 17 of them, with Hillary Clinton topping her Democratic rival on 16 different occasions.

Sanders Reflects 'Poor People Don't Vote'

"Poor people don't vote," Sanders said when recently quizzed as to why he feels his message hasn't inspired the way he hoped it would.

"I mean, that's just a fact," he added.

Appearing on a recent episode of NBC's "Meet the Press," the Vermont senator further described voter turnout among low income earners as "a sad reality of American society, and that's what we have to transform."

While crediting his campaign with making some inroads and bringing more people into the process, Sanders pointed to 2014 Census data that suggested 80 percent of all poor people eligible to vote that year neglected to do so.

During that same election cycle, Sanders backers contend just one in four people earning less than $10,000 a year bothered to go to the polls.

While the likes of Poltifact has disputed some of Sanders' "75 percent of low-income workers chose not to vote" claim, the liberal-minded senator hopes he's made his point.

Sanders Hoping to Increase Voter Turnout

"If we can significantly increase voter turnout so that low-income people and working people and young people participated in the political process, if we got a voter turnout of 75 percent, this country would be radically transformed," he reasoned said.

According to a series of exit polls, Sanders has lost voters with households of less than $50,000 by 11 points (55 percent to 44 percent) to Clinton. In addition, pollsters have found he has lost middle-income voters by nine points.

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