Rep. Loretta Sanchez, Anaheim native and U.S. Senate candidate, said during an interview with Larry King that as many as 20% of Muslims worldwide support the creation of a caliphate. There are an estimated 1.6 billion adherents of the Muslim faith in the world. That’s a caliphaticos.

From Politico.com:

A prominent Democratic congresswoman and Senate candidate said Thursday that up to 20 percent of Muslims want to establish an Islamic caliphate and would use “terrorism” to achieve that goal.

Rep. Loretta Sanchez said Muslims seeking a caliphate are willing to use terrorism and violence to impose their views on the Western world.

“We know that there is a small group, and we don’t know how big that is — it can be anywhere between 5 and 20 percent, from the people that I speak to — that Islam is their religion and who have a desire for a caliphate and to institute that in any way possible,” Sanchez said on “PoliticKING with Larry King.”

“They are not content enough to have their way of looking at the world, they want to put their way on everybody in the world,” she said. “And again, I don’t know how big that is, and depending on who you talk to, but they are certainly — they are willing to go to extremes. They are willing to use and they do use terrorism.”

First elected in 2003, Sanchez serves on the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on Armed Services.

You can read the entire article here.

Here’s the interview itself:

Man, is Larry King old.

I haven’t seen any response or comment from the campaign of rival candidate Kamala Harris, the state’s left-wing Attorney General, or from left-wing activists within the Democratic Party.